Jean-Guy Pilon

Jean-Guy Pilon (1930-2021), born in Saint-Polycarpe, took a law degree at the Université de Montréal in 1954, joined Radio-Canada the same year as a producer and headed its cultural programmes from 1970 to 1985. Close to the Hexagone from its beginnings, he ran it during Gaston Miron's stay in Paris. Co-founder of the review Liberté in 1959, he edited it for nearly twenty years, and in 1972 co-founded the Rencontre québécoise internationale des écrivains, which he chaired until 1997. Awarded the Prix Athanase-David in 1984, he died in Montreal.

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• PoetryComme eau retenueJean-Guy Pilon · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature