Monique Deland (born July 6, 1958) is a Quebecer poet. She is a recipient of the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît (1993), Prix ÃÂmile-Nelligan (1995), Prix Alain-Grandbois (2009), Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard (2010), and the Grand Prix Quebecor du Festival international de Poésie (2019).
Monique Deland was born in Montreal and trained as a visual artist. She is the daughter of André Deland, (1926-1979, Geology Professor at Sir George Williams / Concordia University) who taught her the love of science according to her Discours de réception àl'Académie des lettres du Québec https://academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/wp20/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/deland_monique_reception.pdf and Suzanne Lapointe (sister of Jean Lapointe, a Quebec actor).
From 1978 to 1995, Deland taught visual arts at the high school level. From 1993 to 2002, she earned a masters and doctorate in literary studies at the Université du Québec àMontréal. She won the Prix Québec-Amérique in 1998 for her master's degree thesis Rivages, Pour une esthétique de l'ambivalence.
From 1999 to 2007, she was a member of the editorial team for the poetry magazine Estuaire. She has also been a poetry critic for the literary magazines Trois, Estuaire, Moebius and Les ÃÂcrits. She is now a regular poetry critic for Estuaire, since 2018. Deland is an elected member of the , since 2014.
She received the Grand Prix de Poésie Le Noroît in 1993 for Ta présence àpeine. In 1995, she was awarded the Prix ÃÂmile-Nelligan for her first poetry book Géants dans l'île, and, in 2009, received the Prix Alain-Grandbois for Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres. She also was awarded two prizes from the Festival international de la Poésie at Trois-Rivières : in 2010 the Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard, and in 2019 the for her most recent book J'ignore combien j'ai d'enfants.https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Deland
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Discours de réception àl'Académie des lettres du Québec