Marguerite Andersen
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Marguerite Andersen Ph.D (born October 15, 1924 in Germany) is a primarily francophone writer and educator who is currently based in Toronto, Canada where she is a teacher at the Toronto Linden School.
Her Ph.D in French Studies is from the Université de Montréal. Previously, she received the Staatsexamen at the Free University of Berlin and has studied at France's Sorbonne. She came to Canada in 1958 after living in various nations such as England, Ethiopia, Tunisia and the United States.
She has also taught at Concordia University, Mount St. Vincent University and the University of Guelph.
In 1996, Andersen produced a place at Factory Theatre in Toronto called Stations in a Painter's Life about German born Canadian artist Christiane Pflug, based on the life of the artist until her suicide in 1972
Since 1998, she has been Editor for the quarterly French literary journal Virages (journal) (ISSN 1203-8792).
She won the 2009 French-language Trillium Award for her book Le Figuier sur le toit.
Bibliography (partial)
- 1965: Claudel et l'Allemagne (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)
- 1972: Mother was not a person (Content Publishing/Blank Rose Books)
- 1975: Paroles Rebelles ISBN 2-89091-112-8 (reissued 1992; with Christine Klein-Lataud; Éditions du Remue-ménage)
- 1982: De mémoire de femme ISBN 2-89026-313-4 (Quinze)
- 1984: L'Autrement pareille ISBN 0-920814-63-8 (Prise de Parole)
- 1991: Courts Métrages et Instantanés ISBN 2-89423-007-9 (Prise de Parole)
- 1992: L'Homme-papier ISBN 2-89091-117-9 (Editions du Remue-ménage)
- 1993: La chambre noire du bonheur ISBN 2-89045-990-X (Hurtubuise HMH)
- 1994: Conversations dans l'Interzone ISBN 2-89423-051-6 (Prise de Parole)
- 1995: La Soupe ISBN 2-89423-062-1, ISBN 2-89031-229-1 (won 1996 Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto; Triptyque)
- 1997: La Bicyclette ISBN 2-89423-086-9, ISBN 2-921706-63-6 (Centre FORA)
- 1998: Le Crus de l'Esplanade ISBN 2-89423-093-1 (Prise de Parole)
- 2000: Bleu sur Blanc ISBN 2-89423-118-0 (Prise de Parole)
- 2003: Dreaming our Space ISBN 1-55071-152-0 (Guernica)
- 2004: Parallèles ISBN 2-89423-168-7 (Prise de Parole)
- 2006: Doucement le bonheur ISBN 978-2-89423-206-4 (Prise de Parole)
- 2009: Le figuier sur le toit ISBN 9782923274492 (Les Éditions l’Interligne)
- 2011: La vie devant elles ISBN 978-2-89423-277-4 (Prise de Parole)
- 2013: La mauvaise mère ISBN 9782894239063 (Prise de Parole)
Theatre
- 1996: Christiane : Stations in a Painter's Life*, Festival The Gathering, Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1996.
- 1996–97: La Fête, Prix O'Neill-Karsh, mises en lecture Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa, 1997 et Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, 1996.
External links
- Marguerite Andersen official website
- (French) L'Île: Marguerite Andersen biography
- Writers' Union of Canada: Marguerite Andersen profile
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- 1924 births
- Living people
- University of Paris alumni
- Canadian educators
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian women poets
- Franco-Ontarian people
- Writers from Toronto
- German educators
- Canadian poets in French
- Université de Montréal alumni
- Concordia University faculty
- German women writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
