Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Gérard Bessette (born 1920) is a noted French Canadian author. He was born in Ste Anne de Sabrevois, Quebec and attended the University of Montreal where he studied literature and already began to publish works of poetry. One of his most famous works is Le Libraire which is an existentialist tale of a book store employee in a small Quebec town in the fifties. It deals with one of Bessette's most common themes which is the stifling culture of Quebec in the fifties. Bessette became a professor first at RMC and then at Queen's. In 1980, he won the Prix David in 1980, Quebec's highest literary honour. He currently lives in retirement in Kingston, Ontario. Works La Bagarre - 1958 Le Libraire - 1960 Les Pédagogue - 1961 Poèems Temporels - 1962 L'Incubation - 1965 Un Littérature en Ébullition - 1968 Le Cycle - 1971 Trois Romanciers Québécois - 1973 La Commensale - 1975 Les Anthropoïdes - 1977 Mes Roman et Moi - 1979 Le Semestre - 1979 La Garden-Party De Christophine - 1980 Les Dired D'Omer Marin - 1985 See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Quebec authors This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.