Anne Hébert

Anne Hbert Qubecs celebrated author of emKamouraskaem emHloiseem emLes Enfants du sabbatem and many other novels and books of poetry worked as a scriptwriter with the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal in 1953 and 1954 Her coscripting effort with a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscajutraclaudeClaude Jutraa led to a somewhat marred film version of emKamouraskaem which may have gone too far to preserve the novels aleatory approach to memory Hbert denounced Yves Simoneaus interpretation of her novel emLes Fous de bassanem but some see it as a better film than Jutras She won the Governor Generals Award three times twice for fiction and once for poetry Born in SainteCatherinedeFossambault that town is now known as SainteCatherinedelaJacques Cartier The last two titles below were based on her written works but she was not the screenwriter Marcel Beaulieu Sheldon Chad and Yves Simoneau wrote the screenplay for emLes Fous de bassanem 2012s emLe torrentem was based on a series of stories Hbert wrote in the late 1940s and early 1950s They were adapted for the screen by the films director Simon Lavoie Hbert moved to Paris in the mid1950s but returned to Qubec shortly before her death Her last novel emUn Habit de lumireem was published in 1998 Hbert died of bone cancer on January 22 2000brbrbr