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Biography
Jocelyne Felx (born January 2, 1949) is a Quebec literary critic and writer.
The daughter of Jeanne d'Arc Marleau and Laurier Chartrand, she was born in Saint-Lazare de Vaudreuil and studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. In 1975, she published her first novel Les vierges folles. Felx has contributed essays and critical writing to various literary magazines and has been poetry critic for Lettres québécoises. In 1982, she received the Prix Émile-Nelligan for Orpailleuse. Felx was awarded the Prix de littérature Gérald-Godin for her collection Les Pavages du désert. In 1995, La Pierre et les heures was included on the shortlist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry.
Works
- Les vierges folles (1975)
- Les petits camions rouges (1975)
- Feuillets embryonnaires (1980)
- Orpailleuse (1982)
- Nickel-odeon (1985)
- Les Pavages du désert (1988)
- Chute libre (1991)
- La pierre et les heures (1995)
- Poèmes choisis. Émile nelligan/le récital de l'ange (1997)
- La question de Nicodème (2000)
- L'échelle et l'olivier (2006)
- Le nord des heures (2012)