Anne Hébert (1916-2000)

• novelist, poet
• born in 1916 in Quebec
• influenced by her father, a provincial civil servant, and her cousin Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, a poet
• first achieved recognition as a poet in the 1940's and 1950's
• moved to Paris in the 1950's, but made frequent visits to Canada
• died in Montreal on January 22, 2000 of cancer
• Novels:
  • Kamouraska (1970), translated in 1974, based on a 19th century murder
  • Les enfants du sabbat (1975), translated as Children of the Black Sabbath (1978),
  • Héloise (1980), translated in1982, about a Parisian vampire
  • Les fous de Bassan (1982), translated as In the shadow of the wind, gives multiple perspectives on a double rape and murder, won France's Femina prize in 1992
  • Un Habit D'Lumiere (1999)
• Poetry:
  • Les songes en equilibre (1942)
  • Le tombeau des rois (1953)
• Short Stories:
  • Le torrent (1950), translated in 1967
• filmography

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