Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (d. 1941)
Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941) was a Canadian Symbolist poet from Montreal who wrote in Quebec French. Even though he stopped writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of 19, Nelligan has become an iconic figure in Quebec culture and is considered one of the most important Francophone poets in the history of Canadian literature.
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