Jacques Brault

Jacques Brault (29 March 1933 – 20 October 2022) was a French Canadian poet and translator who lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on Radio-Canada.

Jacques Brault's writings include plays, novels and works of short fiction, translations and several works of Canadian literary criticism. However, it is primarily for his work as a poet that Jacques Brault is known outside of Canada.

Brault died on 20 October 2022, at the age of 89.

• Mémoire – 1965
• Allain Grandbois: poètes d'aujourd'hui — 1968
• La poésie ce matin — 1971
• Trois partitions — 1972
• L'en dessous l'admirable — 1975 (translated into English as Within the Mystery)
• Poèmes des quatre côtes — 1975
• Agonie — 1984
• Moments fragiles — 1984 (translated into English as Fragile Moments)
• Poèmes — 1986
• La poussière du chemin — 1989
• Il n'y a plus de chemin — 1990 (translated into English as On the Road No More)
• Lac noire
• Ô saisons, ô châteaux — 1991
• Au petit matin — 1993
• Chemin faisan — 1995
• Au fonds du jardin — accompagnements — 1996
• Au bras des ombres — 1997

• Québec-Paris award, for Mé, in 1968
• Governor General's Award
  • for Quand nous serons heureux, in 1970
  • for Agonie, in 1985
  • for his translation of the collection of poems Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett, in 1999
• Prix Alain-Grandbois, for Il n'y a plus de chemin, in 1991
• Ludger-Duvernay Prize (1978)
• Prix Athanase-David (1986)
• Prix Gilles-Corbeil (1996)