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Gaston Miron

Died in 1996

Gaston Miron (1928-1996), born in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts in the Laurentians, went through the juvenate of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Granby and reached Montreal in 1947, where he lived on odd jobs. In 1953 he founded, with five friends, the Éditions de l'Hexagone, the first Quebec publishing house devoted solely to poetry, which he directed until 1981, with an interruption from 1958 to 1961. A pro-independence activist, imprisoned without trial in October 1970, he received a state funeral on his death.

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