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Canadian writer Alice Munro was lauded as a âmaster of the contemporary short storyâ by the Swedish Academy when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.
In the context of Canadian literature, poet Patrice Desbiens explored the experience of the Francophone minority in Ontario by focusing on themes of alienation. He notably addressed this subject in his bilingual poetry collection LâHomme invisible/The Invisible Man, published in 1981.1
His work is part of a broader revitalization of Franco-Ontarian culture that gained momentum in the 1970s, a period that saw significant growth in regional French-language theatre and literature across the province.1