Georgette LeBlanc
Elle / She / Her
Georgette LeBlanc holds a doctorate from the Université de Louisiane à Lafayette. She went on to publish a cycle of free verse novels, Alma (2007), Amédé (2010), Prudent (2013) (finalist for the Governor General's Award in poetry) and le Grand Feu (2016), with Éditions Perce-Neige. His literary translation Océan (2019) from English into Acadian French, won him the Governor General's Literary Award in 2021. Her collection, Petits poèmes sur mon père qui est mort, is launched in spring 2022 by Éditions Perce-Neige. Georgette LeBlanc is a lecturer in creative writing in the Department of French Studies at the Université de Moncton.
Photo credit: François Gaudet
Petits poèmes sur mon père qui est mort
Sessions in which Georgette LeBlanc participates
Friday 25 April, 2025
Thursday 1 May, 2025
This session looks at the links between archiving practices and literary writing and performance practices.For more information on presentations and guest speakers, visit the Study Days website.
Friday 2 May, 2025
As tuition and housing costs continue to rise in Atlantic Canada, and as ‘free’ online digital resources proliferate, the price of physical books has become a target of student associations across the region. At SMU, for example, the student association actively promotes a list of “ZTC’ courses that offer ‘Zero Textbook Costs.” What are such programs teaching us about the relationship between the university and small press publishing in the region, especially in minority languages? What is a ...