André Roy (writer)
André Roy is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
He has also published extensively as a film and literary critic, and was an editor of the cultural magazines Hobo-Québec and Spirale. An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Several of his works have been translated into English by Daniel Sloate.
He was one of Quebec's earliest openly gay writers.Awards and nominations
- 1979 Governor General's Awards - Nominee in French poetry for Les passions du samedi
- 1984 Governor General's Awards - Nominee in French poetry Les sept jours de la jouissance
- 1985 Governor General's Awards - Winner in French poetry for Action writing
- 1987 Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie - L'Accélérateur d'intensité
- 1998 Prix de poésie Terrasses Saint-Sulpice - Vies
- 2008 Prix littéraire de Radio-Canada
- 2009 Governor General's Awards - Nominee in French poetry for Les espions de Dieu
Works