Author: Emile Nelligan
Alternate names: Émile Nelligan; Эмиль Неллиган
Born: 24 December 1879
Died: 18 November 1941
Bio: Émile Nelligan was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in French. Even though he stopped writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of 19, Nelligan remains an iconic figure in Quebec culture and was considered by Edmund Wilson to be the greatest Canadian poet in any language.