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Émile Nelligan

Émile Nelligan
Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (d. 1941)

Émile Nelligan was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in French. Even though he stopped writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of 19, Nelligan remains an iconic figure in Quebec culture and was considered by Edmund Wilson to be the greatest Canadian poet in any language.

24 December 1879

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