Alice Parizeau

Alice Parizeau born Alice Poznanska on July 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland – died September 30, 1990 in Outremont, Quebec, Canada was a jewish writer, essayist, and journalist.

During World War II, Poznanska was a prisoner in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the German invasion of Warsaw.

In France, she studied law and political science and in 1955 visited Quebec where she decided to live when she was offered the chance to set up a public library in Montreal. She married Jacques Parizeau, Quebec politician, on which she had a tremendous influence.

She won the Prix européen de l'Association des écrivains de langue française in 1982 for her novel Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie (The lilacs are blooming in Warsaw).

Works

• Les solitudes humaines (1962)
• Voyage en pologne (1963)
• Fuir (1963)
• Survivre (1964)
• Une Québécoise en Europe rouge (1965)
• Rue Sherbrooke Ouest (1967)
• Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie (1981)
• Côte-des-neiges (1983)
• Blizzard sur Québec (1987)