biography
pronunciation:
[aymõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1913)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Brest, NW France. He went to work as a farmhand in Canada (1911) and wrote Maria Chapdelaine the story of the hardships of life in part of Quebec province. It was published in 1915 and was a great success, though Hémon was killed in a train accident in Canada before its publication. Nicole Deschamps published a new edition of Maria Chapdelaine in 1980. |
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