death_date birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date period spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
august 21 , 1968 saint-jérôme , quebec canadian '' '' marie-didace '' en plein terre '' '' le survenant '' april 16 , 1893 1930s-1960s hyacinthe `` hy '' guèvremont germaine guevremont.jpg germaine guèvremont
 germaine grignon novelist short story writer journalist
germaine guèvremont

germaine guèvremont , born grignon -lrb- april 16 , 1893 -- august 21 , 1968 -rrb- was a canadian writer , who was a prominent figure in quebec literature .
born in 1893 in saint-jérôme , quebec , she was educated in quebec and toronto , and worked as a journalist for women 's magazines before marrying hyacinthe `` hy '' guèvremont and moving with him to sorel in 1916 .
she was a housewife for a number of years , but later returned to journalism as a writer for `` the gazette '' and an editor for `` le courrier de sorel '' .
the guèvremonts later moved to montreal , where germaine worked as a court stenographer during the great depression .
she also began to publish short stories , which were compiled into her debut book , `` en plein terre '' , in 1938 .
she published the novel `` le survenant '' in 1945 , followed by the sequel `` marie-didace '' in 1947 .
`` the outlander '' , an english translation of her two novels in one volume , was published in 1950 , and won the fiction prize in the 1950 governor general 's awards .
the book was also published in the united kingdom under the title `` monk 's reach '' .
she did not publish any further novels , but continued to publish journalism and short stories as well as writing radio and television adaptations of her fiction works .
she began to write her memoirs late in life , but completed only two chapters before her death in 1968 .
she was also a cousin of claude-henri grignon , the author of `` un homme et son péché '' .
ironically , guèvremont 's novels are largely recognized as the last influential examples of `` romans du terroir '' , the traditionalist form of quebec literature in the early 20th century , while grignon 's `` un homme '' broke with that tradition and is recognized as one of quebec 's first influential modernist novels .
