She worked for Radio Canada, Film Board of Canada and National Film Board of Canada during the 1950s. Hébert was affiliated with Canada's first film bureau. The provocative tales were considered shocking at the time, but later grew in popularity. It was finally published in 1950 at the expense of Roger Lemelin. No Quebec publisher would publish her 1945 collection of stories, Le Torrent. Saddened by the 1943 death of her thirty-one-year-old cousin, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, and by the death of her only sister Marie in 1952, Hébert's poetry became filled with images of death and drowning." It received positive reviews and won her the Prix David. In it she writes of herself as existing in solitude in a "dreamlike torpor". Her first collection of poems, Les Songes en Équilibre, was published in 1942. She began writing poems and stories at a young age.īy the time she was in her early twenties, Hébert's work had been published in a number of periodicals. She was a cousin and childhood friend of modernist poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau. Her father, Maurice Hébert, was a poet and literary critic. Hébert was born in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault (name later changed to Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf, and in 1984 to Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier), Quebec. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry. Plaque in memory of Anne Hébert in QuebecĪnne Hébert CC OQ (pronounced in French) (Aug– January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet.
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