| | Denise Desautels receives a Career Grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Denise Desautels was born in Montréal on April 4, 1945 and holds a BA and an MA from the Université de Montréal. |
 | | She defines herself as "an archaeologist of the intimate" whose work seeks to "draw forth a poetic language that moves away from everyday usage and that simultaneously reaches the other or others grappling with their own fragile intimacy and the impenetrability of a world in which the air is more often than not oppressive." |
 | | She is a member of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois, the Académie des lettres du Québec, the Société des écrivains canadiens, the organizing committee of the Rencontre québécoise internationale des écrivains, the Maison des écrivains de Paris, the Association internationale des critiques d’art and the Centre québécois du P.E.N. international. |
| www.calq.gouv.qc.ca /calq/actualites/bcdesautels_en.htm (650 words) |