Roger Lemelin

Roger Lemelin (1919-1992), born in Quebec City in the working-class district of Saint-Sauveur, into a family of ten children, left school at fifteen. After a leg injury, he turned to writing and published his first novel in 1944. A Guggenheim fellow and a correspondent for Time and Life, he then went into business in advertising, food and timber, and chaired the daily La Presse from 1972 to 1981. He wrote himself the scripts of the television series drawn from his book. A corresponding member of the Académie Goncourt, he died in 1992.

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• NovelThe Plouffe FamilyLes PlouffeRoger Lemelin · 1948Literature