Michel Pleau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michel Pleau

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 25-May-1964

Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Profession: poet, literary critic

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Michel Pleau (born May 25, 1964) is a Canadian poet, who was appointed Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in January 2014.Originally from the Saint-Sauveur district of Quebec City, he was educated at Université Laval and the Université du Québec à Montréal.The author of numerous books of poetry and literary criticism, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for his collection La lenteur du monde.
An English translation, Eternity Taking Its Time, was published by Bookland Press in 2012. He won Quebec's Prix Alphonse-Piché, Prix Octave-Crémazie and Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard for earlier collections.
In 1997, the Commission de toponymie du Québec named an unnamed island in the province's Caniapiscau Reservoir for his collection La traversée de la nuit, as part of a program honouring writers to mark the 20th anniversary of the Charter of the French Language.His most recent collection, Ciel de la basse-ville, was published in 2014.