About Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was a Canadian poet, writer, letter writer, and essayist, who "was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s". He is mainly recognized for his literary work – in particular, for the only book published during his lifetime, entitled Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, published in 1937 – but he was also a painter. Almost all of his writings are published, without cuts, between 1970 and 2020. He won a bronze medal and second prize for a work of art. Still in his youth, he founded the monthly journal La relève with his friends Paul Beaulieu, Robert Charbonneau, Robert Élie and Jean Le Moyne. Two years later, he was awarded a prize by the Canadian Authors' Association for his poem "L'automne". Glassco's book won the Canada Council Award for translation that year.
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