André Roy (writer)
André Roy | |
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| Born | February 27, 1944 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | poet, film and literary critic |
| Period | 1970s-present |
| Notable works | Action writing, L'Accélérateur d'intensité |
André Roy (born February 27, 1944) is a Canadian poet and arts critic from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 1985 for Action writing and was a shortlisted nominee for the award on three other occasions.
He has also published extensively as a film and literary critic, and was an editor of the cultural magazines Hobo-Québec and Spirale. An archive of his papers is held by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Several of his works have been translated into English by Daniel Sloate.
He was one of Quebec's earliest openly gay writers. In 2021 he was named the winner of the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, a lifetime achievement award for LGBTQ Canadian writers.