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Author Léveillé wins arts distinction award
Franco-Manitoban author J. Roger Léveillé is this year’s recipient of the Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, the Manitoba Arts Council announced this week.
The $30,000 prize is awarded biennially in recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by a professional Manitoba artist. Léveillé, 66, has been active in writing, journalism, publishing and directing for more than four decades, and has published more than 30 works (novels, poetry, collections of essays) since 1968.
Léveillé studied literature at the University of Manitoba, McGill University and in Paris, and has long been recognized as the leading voice of Franco-Manitoban literature. Among his many awards and honours, Léveillé was inducted into the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Hall of Fame in 1999, and received the Manitoba Lifetime Writing and Publishing Award in 2007. His 2001 novel, The Setting Lake Sun, was recently selected as the one book Manitobans should read this year by the Winnipeg Foundation’s On the Same Page promotion.
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