France Théoret (born 1942) is a Canadian feminist, author, poet, and teacher.
Biography
France Théoret was born in Montreal, Quebec on October 17, 1942. Although she grew up in a house without many books, she discovered she loved to write in school and through writing letters. She earned her baccalauréat at l'École normale Cardinal-Léger in 1965. She attended the Université de Montréal in the 1960s, earning her bachelor's degree in 1968. From 1967 to 1969 she worked on the editorial board of La Barre du jour, a student-run avant-garde literary magazine. From 1972 to 1974, she studied semiotics and psychoanalysis at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1977 she earned a Master of Letters from the Université de Montréal, and in 1982 a Ph.D. in French studies from the Université de Sherbrooke.
From 1968 to 1987, Théoret taught literature at Cégep Ahuntsic.
In 1976, she co-founded a feminist newspaper titled Les Têtes de pioche. In 1979, she co-founded Spirale, a cultural journal which she directed from 1981 to 1984.
She published her first independent piece, Bloody Mary, with Les Herbes rouges in 1977. She published three more over the next three years: Une voix pour Odile, Vertiges, and Nécessairement putain, and the four works went on to become widely studied in feminist studies. Les Herbes rouges also published her first novel, Nous parlerons comme on écrit, in 1982.
Théoret was awarded the Prix Athanase-David in 2012 for her work.
Works
Poetry
Bloody Mary, 1977
Vertiges, 1979
Nécessairement putain, 1980
Intérieurs, 1984
Étrangeté, l'étreinte, 1992
La Fiction de l'ange, 1992
Une mouche au fond de l'œil, 1998
La Nuit de la muette, 2010
L'Été sans erreur, 2014
Cruauté du jeu, 2017
Fiction
Une voix pour Odile, 1978
Nous parlerons comme on écrit, 1982
L'Homme qui peignait Staline, 1989
Trois femmes dans Nouvelles de Montréal, 1992
Laurence, 1996
Huis clos entre jeunes filles,2000
Les apparatchiks vont à la mer, 2004
Une belle éducation, 2006
La Femme du stalinien, 2010
Hôtel des quatre chemins, 2011
La Zone grise, 2013
Va et nous venge, 2015
Les Querelleurs, 2018
Theatre
L'Échantillon, 1976
Transit, 1984
Essays
Entre raison et déraison, 1987
Journal pour mémoire, 1993
La Bosnie nous regarde - essais et témoignages, 1995
Manifeste d'écrivaines pour le 21e siècle, 1999
Écrits au noir, 2009
Autres publications
Folie, Mystique et Poésie, 1988
Enfances et Jeunesses, 1988
Les Grands Poèmes de la poésie québécoise, 1998
L'Écriture, c'est les cris, 2014 (with Louky Bersianik)