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Claude Jasmin

Canadian journalist (1930–2021)

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Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer from Quebec.^[1]^[2]

While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel La Petite Patrie, an autobiographical novel about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal in the 1940s. The novel served as the basis for a very popular television series on Radio-Canada which ran for two seasons from 1974 to 1976, and was adapted in graphic novel form in 2015. It is now considered a classic of Québécois literature, and the neighbourhood in which it is set has since been renamed "Rosemont-La Petite Patrie" in Jasmin's honour. He served as the screenwriter for the television adaptation of his novel, and later was the screenwriter for a number of other television series, many of which were based on his novels.

His start as a writer came as one of the pioneers of the crime novel genre in Quebec: his first novel, La corde au cou ("A rope around his neck", 1960) is about a remorseless killer, and he returned regularly to the genre over the years, including a series of novels featuring detective Charles Asselin in the 1980s. Several theatrical films were adapted from his novels, including Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou)^[3] and Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal).^[4]

Honors

1960 – Prix du Cercle du livre de France
1965 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, Éthel et le terroriste
1970 – Prix Québec-Paris, La Sablière
1980 – Prix Ludger-Duvernay
1980 – Prix France-Canada, La Sablière
2016 – Prix Athanase-David (Prix du Québec)

References

^ Laila Maalouf and Josée Lapointe, "L’auteur Claude Jasmin est mort". La Presse, 29 April 2021.
^ "Quebec writer Claude Jasmin has died at age 91". CTV News, 29 April 2021.
^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Corde au cou, La – Pierre Patry". Films du Québec, January 1, 2009.
^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Délivrez-nous du mal – Film de Jean-Claude Lord". Films du Québec, January 8, 2009.