Éva Senécal

Éva Senécal (/evɑ senekal/; born April 20, 1905 in La Patrie, Quebec; died March 14, 1988 in Sherbrooke), was a Québécois poet and novelist who worked for the Sherbrooke newspaper, La Tribune.[1]

Éva Senécal
Born(1905-04-20)April 20, 1905
La Patrie, Quebec
DiedMarch 14, 1988(1988-03-14) (aged 82)
Sherbrooke
OccupationWriter
LanguageFrench
NationalityCanadian
Notable worksLa Course dans l'aurore, Dans les ombres
Notable awardsPrix Albert-Lévesque, 1931

Early life and education

Senécal had a solitary childhood and attended school at the École normale de Saint Hyacinthe in La Patrie. She contracted tuberculosis in her late teens and her long convalescence afforded time for extensive reading and developing her poetry.[2]

Career

Senécal published her first volume of poetry, Un peu d'angoisse, un peu de fièvre, in 1927. The editor Alfred DesRochers became a supporter of her work, and her success as a poet led to being hired to write for the Sherbrooke newspaper La Tribune from 1930 to 1936 (she later returned to the paper in the mid-1960s).[1] Senécal's novel Dans les ombres generated some controversy when journalist Jules Larivière (Mon magazine) denounced it as having immoral content, but the critical reception was generally warm and the book won the Prix Albert-Lévesque in 1931.[2] Her second novel, Mon Jacques, was published in 1933. Senécal worked as an editor in Montreal in the 1930s, gradually losing interest in writing. Her fragile health remained a barrier in her career.[2] An anthology of Senécal's writing was published in 1987.[3]

Legacy

The city of Sherbrooke's first public library was named for her at the time of its foundation in December 1990.[4]

Works
  • 1927, Un peu d'angoisse… Un peu de fièvre, Montréal, La Patrie.
  • 1929, La course dans l'aurore, préface de Louis Philippe Robidoux, Sherbrooke, La Tribune.
  • 1931, Dans les ombres, Montréal, Albert Lévesque. (Coll. "Romans de la jeune génération")
  • 1933, Mon Jacques, Montréal, Albert Lévesque.

Prizes
  • 1929 – Poetry prize awarded by l'Action catholique de la jeunesse canadienne (A.C.J.C.), for La Course dans l'aurore[2]
  • 1929 – First prize for originality at the Salon des poètes de Lyon, for "Vent du Nord," a poem from La Course dans l'aurore.
  • 1931 – Prix Albert-Lévesque, for Dans les ombres
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References
  1. Hamel-Beaudoin, Françoise (2004). La vie d'Éva Senécal. Montréal: Triptyque. ISBN 289031510X.
  2. Brosseau, Marie-Claude (1998). Trois écrivaines de l'entre-deux-guerres : Alice Lemieux, Éva Senécal et Simone Routier (in French). Québec: Éditions Nota bene (Coll. Études). Retrieved April 7, 2018.
  3. Sénécal, Éva (1987). Le choix d'Éva Sénécal dans l'oeuvre d'Éva Sénécal. Charlesbourg, Que.: Les Presses Laurentiennes. ISBN 2890150550.
  4. "Bibliothèque municipale Éva-Senécal". bibliotheques.sherbrooke.ca (in French). Retrieved April 7, 2018.
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