Réjean Ducharme

Réjean Ducharme (1941-2017), born in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, joined the Canadian air force, which sent him to the Arctic, then lived off odd jobs, as a clerk, proofreader and taxi driver, until a Parisian publisher accepted in 1966 a manuscript that the Quebec houses had refused. He never appeared in public and gave no interview after 1966; only two photographs of him are known. He wrote novels, plays, songs for Robert Charlebois and screenplays for Francis Mankiewicz, and made collages under the name Roch Plante. He died in Montreal.

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