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Suzanne Jacob | |
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| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) Amos, Quebec, Canada |
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| Language | French |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal |
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Suzanne Jacob (born 1943) is aFrench Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic.
Born in the town ofAmos, in theAbitibi region ofQuébec, she studied classics at the Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomption inNicolet, and also attended classes at the "Atelier de théâtre" and the "École de musique".
After moving toMontreal, she attended theUniversity of Montreal where she studied literature and art history. During this time she appeared in two performances of the experimental theatre group, Les Apprentis-Sorciers, a theatrical group that opened up the doors of Montréal to modernist and experimental performance. She taught French between 1966 and 1974. It was at this time that she began to write and perform monologues, poems and songs. In 1970, she won the Prix du Patriote for singer-songwriter of the year. That same year she participated in the Spa festival in Belgium.
Her first novel,Flore Cocon, was published in 1978. It was also in this year that, with Paul Paré and Patricia Gariépy, she founded the publishing house Le Biocreux. Jacob was the literary director of this publishing house for several years. Suzanne Jacob contributed to a number of literary reviews, includingLiberté andLa Gazette des femmes. She also recorded two albums,Suzanne Jacob (1979) andUne humaine ambulante (1980).
Her abundant and diverse output has resulted in novels, essays, short stories, poems, commentary, performance pieces, plays, and installations. Of her work she has said, that from the beginning she has continually tried to use fiction as a way of creating discrepancies, breaks, and uncertainty in the monolithic set of beliefs that surround us, and that without these discrepancies nothing would shake the rigidity of fundamentalism.[1] In 1992 and 1993 she was writer in residence at the University of Montréal.
She has lectured in Québec, the United States, Europe and South America. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of Quebec. She received the Governor General's Award and the Prix Paris-Quebec for her novelLaura Laur (1983). She also received the Governor General's Award forLa Part de Feu (1997), which was also awarded the First Prize for Poetry by the Société Radio Canada.
Laura Laur was later adapted byBrigitte Sauriol into the 1989 filmLaura Laur.[2]
In 2000, Jacob collaborated withCharles Binamé on the film script forLa Beauté de Pandore. In 2002 and 2003 she acted in the television dramasTrop jeune pour être père and "Footsteps". In 2007 Suzanne Jacob received the Félix-Antoine-Savard poetry prize for the group of poems entitled "Ils ont été nombreux à répondre", which appeared in issue Number 125 of the literary review Estuaire.
