Gaston Miron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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poet and writer from Quebec, Canada
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Place of Birth: Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Canada
About Gaston Miron
- Gaston Miron, (French pronunciation: ?[gast?~ mi'??~]; January 8, 1928 – December 14, 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
- His masterpiece, L'homme rapaillé (partly translated as The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron, whose title echoes one of his most celebrated poems, La marche à l'amour) has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon.
- Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement.
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