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== Biography ==
She was born in [[Amqui]] in the valley of the [[Matapedia River]]<ref name=prix>{{cite web |url=http://www.prixduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/recherche/desclaureat.php?noLaureat=215 |title=Gagnon, Madeleine |work=Les Prix du Québec |date=4 November 2002 |publisher=Government of Quebec |language=fr}}</ref> and was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in [[Moncton, New Brunswick|Moncton]], at the [[Université de Montréal]] and the [[University of the Mediterranean|Université d'Aix-en-Provence]]. From 1969 to 1982, she taught literature at the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]]. She
She wrote for the magazines ''Chroniques'' (which she founded with [[Patrick Straram]]), ''Liberté'', ''La Nouvelle Barre du jour'', ''Possibles'', ''Osiris'', ''Estuaire'', ''Urgences'', ''Passages'', and ''Actuels''. In 1986, her book ''Les Fleurs du Catalpa'' received the Grand Prix de poésie from the [[Journal de Montréal]], Her poetry collection ''Chant pour un Québec lointain'' received the [[Governor General's Award for French-language poetry]], the Prix Arthur-Buies from the Salon du livre de Rimouski and the Prix Artquimédia from the town of Amqui. In 2002, she was awarded the [[Prix Athanase-David]]. Gagnon was named a member of the [[Académie des lettres du Québec]] in 1987.<ref name=lile/>
== Selected works ==
Source:<ref name=lile/> * ''La venue à l'écriture'', feminist essays (1976) with [[Hélène Cixous]] and [[Annie Leclerc]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguidedt0000unse |url-access=registration |title=The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguidedt0000unse/page/260 260]–61 |last=Sage |first=Lorna |author2=Greer, Germaine |author3=Showalter, Elaine |year=1999 |
* ''La terre est remplie de langage'', poetry (1993)
* ''Le Deuil du soleil'', autobiographical novel (1998), nominated for [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction]]
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