Alice Parizeau
Alice Parizeau, (1930-1990), was a Polish-born writer and journalist from Quebec, Canada.
War prisoner in Bergen-Belsen after the German invasion of Warsaw, she left for France where she studied law and political science.
She visited Quebec in 1955 and decided to live there when she was offered the chance to set up a public library in Montreal. She married Jacques Parizeau, Quebec politician, on which she had a tremendous influence.
She won the Prix européen de l'Association des écrivains de langue française in 1982 for her novel Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie (The lilacs are blooming in Warsaw).
Works
- Les solitudes humaines (1962)
- Voyage en pologne (1963)
- Fuir (1963)
- Survivre (1964)
- Une Québécoise en Europe rouge (1965)
- Rue Sherbrooke Ouest (1967)
- Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie (1981)
- Côte-des-neiges (1983)
- Blizzard sur Québec (1987)
Referenced By
Jacques Parizeau | List of Quebec authors
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