Prise de parole

Prise de parole ("Speaking Out") is a Canadian book publishing company.[1] Located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario,[2] the company publishes French language literature, primarily but not exclusively by Franco-Ontarian authors.[3]

Prise de parole
IndustryPublishing
FounderCoopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario
Headquarters
Greater Sudbury, Ontario
,
Canada
Websitewww.prisedeparole.ca

History

The company was established in the early 1970s by the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, a group of professors and students at Laurentian University who established nearly all of the city's contemporary francophone cultural institutions.[4] Its first book, released in 1973, was Lignes Signes, an anthology of poetry by Jean Lalonde, Placide Gaboury, Denis St-Jules and Gaston Tremblay,[5] while its first fiction title was Hermaphrodismes, two erotic novellas written by Fernand Dorais under the pen name "Tristan Lafleur".[6]

The most successful title in the company's history is Doric Germain's novel La vengeance de l'orignal.[7] In 1996, the firm was involved in the Federal Court of Canada case Prise de parole Inc v Guérin, éditeur Ltée, after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts from La vengeance de l'orignal in an anthology for use in schools.[8] The case, which awarded Germain $10,000 in compensation but found that Guérin's actions were not an infringement on Germain's moral rights as the excerpts were not damaging to his reputation, is now considered a key precedent in the matter of moral rights in Canadian copyright law,

Other writers published by the company have included Herménégilde Chiasson,[9] Jean-Marc Dalpé,[10] Alain Doom, Fernand Ouellet, Daniel Poliquin, Patrice Desbiens,[4] Michel Bock, Marguerite Andersen,[4] Robert Marinier,[11] Melchior Mbonimpa,[12] Jocelyne Villeneuve,[13] Maurice Henrie,[4] Hélène Brodeur, Franco Catanzariti, Estelle Beauchamp and Robert Dickson,[14] as well as French translations of English works by Charlie Angus, Phil Hall, Matthew Heiti and Tomson Highway.[15]

Awards

As of 2018, titles published by the company have won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama twice, for Dalpé's Le Chien in 1989 and Il n'y a que l'amour in 1999, the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry twice, for Chiasson's Conversations in 1999 and Dickson's Humains paysages en temps de paix relative in 2002, and the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction once, for Dalpé's Un vent se lève qui éparpille in 2000.

References
  1. "French publisher fighting to survive as it awaits grant". Toronto Star, January 2, 1987.
  2. "More than moonscapes". Sudbury Star, October 1, 2005.
  3. "French publishers reflect Canada's regions". The Globe and Mail, November 23, 1992.
  4. "Vive le CanLit français". The Globe and Mail, October 19, 1996.
  5. "Publishing house marks 30th year". Sudbury Star, May 21, 2003.
  6. Gaétan Gervais and Jean-Pierre Pichette, Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français: 1613-1993. University of Ottawa Press, 2010. ISBN 9782760307575.
  7. "French-language publishers pop up outside Quebec". Vancouver Sun, November 16, 1992.
  8. (1996), 104 FTR 104, 66 CPR (3d) 257 [Prise de parole], aff'd (1996) 121 FTR 240 (note), 73 CPR (3d) 557 (FCA)
  9. "Home province inspires Acadian playwrite Hermenegilde Chiasson". Times & Transcript, January 23, 2017.
  10. "Ontario theatre's French voice; Bilingual Dalpe play a highlight of drama fest". Montreal Gazette, May 23, 1989.
  11. "Local author among finalists for Trillium Awards". Ottawa Citizen, February 21, 1997.
  12. "LU professor finalist for book award". Sudbury Star, September 27, 2004.
  13. "Sudbury writer". Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 1990.
  14. "More than a business". Sudbury Star, November 13, 2004.
  15. "Beyond print". Montreal Gazette, February 4, 2006.
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