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Laurent Laplante

Died
March 15, 2017
Age
83 years
Cause
pancreatic cancer

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Laurent Laplante, 83, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer.

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Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante (March 3, 1934 – March 15, 2017) was a Canadian journalist, essayist and detective writer. He is the author of 20 books.

Early life

Laurent Laplante was born in 1934 in Verdun, Quebec, Canada. He studied literature, history, philosophy and government.

Career

Laplante taught at Université Laval. He became a journalist for Le Devoir, L’Action, Le Jour, Le Droit and Le Soleil. He was also a television and radio presenter, an essayist and the author of 20 books, including detective fiction. He was a member of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois.

Laplante won the 1996 Olivar-Asselin Award for his defense of the French language in Quebec through his journalism. He also received the Genève-Montréal Award for his essay Pour en finir avec l’olympisme in 1998, and the Saint-Pacôme Award for his detective novel Des clés en trop, un doigt en moins in 2002.

Death

Laplante died of pancreatic cancer on March 15, 2017, in Lévis, Quebec. He was 83.

Works

Essays

Detective novels

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