Cecile CLOUTIER

CECILE CLOUTIER
Professor Cécile Cloutier-Wojciechowska passed away on September 30, 2017, at the age of 87, at the Ottawa General Hospital. She is preceded by her husband, the late Professor Jerzy A. Wojciechowski. She is survived by her daughters Maria (husband Hiro Shibuya) and Eve, her grandson Isao Alexandre Shibuya, her sister Rachel Cloutier-Vigneault, her nephews and niece, Michel, Louis, François and Pascale and their families, and many friends. Born in Quebec City, she was the daughter of Adrien Cloutier and Maria Lantagne.
Maison Gomin, Services commémoratifs, 2026, boul. René-Lévesque Ouest,Québec, QC G1V 2K8, Friday, December 15, 2017 at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2 p.m. at Saint-Michel Church of Sillery, 1600, Cardinal Persico, Sillery, Québec, QC.
Poet, she published in Quebec, Ontario and France 19 poetry collections, a play (played in Quebec, Montreal, Paris, New York and Radio-Canada), and a storybook for children. She received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Governor General's Award of Canada for her retrospective L'écouté, and the Prix de la Société des Poètes (French Society of Poets), judged by Jean Cocteau.She had three Masters and two Doctorates, including one from the Sorbonne in Paris. She was Professor Emeritus of French Literature at the University of Toronto, where she founded the Center for Research in Quebec Poetry. She published more than 120 articles and critiques, organized more than twenty symposia and countless writing workshops. She founded the Canadian Society for Aesthetics and the Friends of Gatien Lapointe Association, and three poetry journals. She was a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres of France and of the Pen Club of Paris. She was one of the first members of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois. She is the founding president and an honorary member of the Salon du Livre de Toronto. She created The Garden of Poets, at her home in Neuville, devoting her trees one by one to her departed friends, year after year. She opened her homes to all in Neuville, Ottawa, Toronto and when she lived in Paris. For information: ATHOS, Phone number: 418-529-3371 Fax: 418-767-2309 Email: info@lepinecloutier.com
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