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Anne Hébert, (pronounced (:an eˈbɛʁ) in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry. ==Life== Anne Hébert was born in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault (Which later changed to Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf and in 1984 changed to Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier), Quebec. Her father, Maurice Hébert, was a poet and literary critic.〔"(Anne Hebert Biography )," ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', Bookrags.com, Web, April 26, 2011.〕 She was a cousin and childhood friend of modernist poet Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau. She began writing poems and stories at a young age, and "found her work being published in a variety of periodicals by the time she was in her early twenties."〔 ''Les Songes en Équilibre'', (1942) was Hébert's first collection of poems published. It got good reviews and won her the Prix David. In 1943 her cousin, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, "died of a heart attack at the age of 31. In 1952, her only sister Marie died suddenly of an illness. These two events would help shape her poetic vision, full of images of death and drowning."〔 No Quebec publisher would publish her 1945 collection of stories, ''Le Torrent''. It was finally published in 1950 at the expense of Roger Lemelin.〔 Hébert was affiliated with Canada's first film bureau. She worked for Radio Canada, Film Board of Canada and National Film Board of Canada during the 1950s.〔 Again, she could not find a publisher for her second book of poetry, ''Le Tombeau des rois'' (The Tomb of Kings), and had to publish it at her own expense.〔 In 1954 Hébert used a grant from the Royal Society of Canada to move to Paris, thinking that the city would be more receptive to her writing.〔 Hébert returned to Canada in the 1990s. Her last novel ''Un Habit de lumière'' was published in 1998. Hébert died of bone cancer on January 22, 2000 in Montreal.〔( Litweb:Anne Hébert )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Hébert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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