Laurent Poliquin


Laurent Poliquin is an award-winning Franco-Manitoban poet.

Biography

He studied philosophy at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières and completed a MA in French studies at the University of British Columbia. In 1999, he moved to Winnipeg and completed a Bachelor of Education at Université de Saint-Boniface, for which he was awarded the prestigious Government of France Award. He works as a journalist and radio host before becoming a teacher. In 2008, he began a doctorate in French studies at the University of Manitoba after holding editorial functions at Éditions des Plaines. In 2009 he was introduce as a member of the research center Young People's Text and Culture of the University of Winnipeg and works as an editor for the international journal Youth: Young People, Texts, Cultures. He is also an honorary member of the International Scientific Council of the magazine Otago French Notes of New Zealand. He is the author of eight books of poetry, his most recent release, De l'amuïssement des certitudes, won the Rue-Deschambault Literary Award 2015.
Winner of the Alliance Française Award in Molsheim in 2002, Poliquin participated in the Toronto International Book Fair, the Salon du livre de Paris, the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. His poems have been published in Quebec, in Canada in France and Italy.

Works

Poetry

An interview with Laurent Poliquin, interview with Nina Berkhout in CV2, vol. 30, No. 1, Summer 2007, p. 58–62.

Awards and distinctions