Published on November 15, 2024 by Médialo
The Société nationale des Québécoises et Québécois, region des Laurentides (SNQL) and the Mouvement Québec français des Laurentides (MQFL) responsible for the organization of the Gaston-Miron Prizes for Excellence in French are launching the call for applications in the field of literary creation.
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People wishing to participate in this competition can now send their literary creation in the form of’a poem of a free or rhythmic nature whose theme remains the choice of the author. The work must not exceed 300 words and must be received by January 15, 2025.
Two age categories are targeted in this competition: young people between 12 and 18 years old, as well as adults over 19 years old. A jury made up of six people from outside the two sponsoring organizations will select the three best texts submitted in each category. The prizes for the winners will be’a value of $500 for the 1st prize, $300 for the 2nd prize and $200 for the 3rd prize, for both adults and youth.
Poetry morning
On March 23 at 1:30 p.m., as part of Francophonie month, finalists and guests will be invited to the Antony-Lessard room in Saint-Jérôme, during’a morning of poetry for the crowning of the three winners of this edition of the Prix d’excellence in French Gaston-Miron (2012).
The regulations as well as the form’registration are available on the SNQL website at’following address: https://shorturl.at/tPzTJ
About Gaston Miron
Gaston Miron, born in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts on January 8, 1928, remains to this day one of the great contemporary poets of Quebec. He is co-founder of Editions de l’Hexagone which he directed from 1953 to 1983. The Quebec delegation in Paris remembered this passion for books by inaugurating the Gaston-Miron library in Paris.
This national poet worked to make our literature known through lecture tours in universities in Europe and the Americas through readings of poems and performances in a number of countries during conferences or literary meetings with various audiences. His classic work under study, translated into ten languages, The Scrapped Man (1970), is a cornerstone of our literature. Gaston Miron died on December 14, 1996 from cancer at the age of 68. He is buried in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts where he received a state funeral, the only writer in fact.
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