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The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France. [ 1 ] Administered by Quebec 's General Delegation in Paris and the Fédération France-Quebec, the award was first presented in 1958 as the Prix Québec-Paris . [ 2 ]
The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québec. It brings together writers and intellectuals of all disciplines. It can have up to 42 members.
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛj dez‿aʁ e de lɛtʁ dy kebɛk], CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec. CALQ offers support and funding for art projects in the performing arts, multidisciplinary arts, circus arts, visual arts, media arts, architectural research ...
There is a huge variety of idioms in Quebec that do not exist in France, such as fait que ("so"); en masse ("a lot"); s'en venir (for arriver and venir ici); ben là! or voyons donc! ("oh, come on!"), de même (for comme ça). Entire reference books have been written about idioms specific to Quebec. A handful of examples among many hundreds:
The black Long Island family allegedly assaulted by the wife and daughter of John “Junior” Gotti in a race-fueled rage at a high school basketball game have sued the mother-daughter duo for ...
Institut de France in Paris, the seat of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. The Académie originated in 1663 as a council of four humanists, "scholars who were the most versed in the knowledge of history and antiquity": Jean Chapelain, François Charpentier, Jacques Cassagne, Amable de Bourzeys, and Charles Perrault. [1]
Medal of the Académie des lettres du Québec is an award granted by the Académie des lettres du Québec to a writer for the body of his or her work or to a personality in cultural life. List of award recipients
As an answer to the lockout, the workers launched their own free daily newspaper, MédiaMatin Québec. [3] [4] On November 27, 2012, Le Journal de Québec launched a special edition for the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, which includes several pages of local news for the region. The paper had published a special Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean ...