Alix Renaud
Born30 August 1945
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Died11 April 2021(2021-04-11) (aged 75)
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter

Alix Renaud (30 August 1945 – 11 April 2021) was a Haitian-born Canadian writer.[1] He was the son of Joseph M. Renaud and Béatrix Black.[2] He was a professor of oral expression and diction, and he was the inventor of the word pompion, meaning firefighter and stemming from the French word pompier of the same meaning. He became a member of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec in 2010.

Distinctions

  • Lauréat du prix Charles-Biddle (2007)
  • Prix de l'Institut canadien de Québec (2012)[3]

Publications

Novels

  • Le Mari (1980)
  • Merdiland, Le Temps parallèle (1983)
  • Dix secondes de sursis, La liberté et Le Temps parallèle (1983)
  • À corps joie (1985)
  • Snesnob (1987)
  • Compère Jacques Soleil (1998)
  • Ovation (1999)[4]
  • Grand Roi et Petit Fou (2009)
  • Traverses (2010)
  • La femme avant Ève (2011)

Linguistics

  • Dictionnaire de l'audiophonie (1981)
  • Dictionnaire anglais-français des additifs alimentaires (1990)
  • Pale kreyòl (1993)
  • Tande kreyòl la byen (1998)
  • Mots étrangers, mots français (2006)
  • Sudoku-mots (2007)

Poetry

  • Le Troc mystérieux (1970)
  • Carême (1972)
  • De ma fenêtre... (1974)
  • Exase exacte (1976)
  • Grâces (1976)
  • Dulcamara (1992)
  • Chair bohème (2009)

References

  1. ↑ "Avis de décès du romancier Alix Renaud". Le National (in French). 11 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Renaud, Joseph (1956). Mil huit cent quatre (in French). Haiti: J. Renaud.
  3. ↑ "Prix d'excellence des arts et de la culture: du talent en abondance". Le Soleil (in French). 28 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Bertin, Raymond. "Alix Renaud : Ovation". Voir.ca (in Canadian French).
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