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Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer from Quebec.

While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel La Petite Patrie, an autobiographical novel about growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal in the 1940s. The novel served as the basis for a very popular television series on Radio-Canada which ran for two seasons from 1974 to 1976, and was adapted in graphic novel form in 2015. It is now considered a classic of Québécois literature, and the neighbourhood in which it is set has since been renamed "Rosemont-La Petite Patrie" in Jasmin's honour. He served as the screenwriter for the television adaptation of his novel, and later was the screenwriter for a number of other television series, many of which were based on his novels.

His start as a writer came as one of the pioneers of the crime novel genre in Quebec: his first novel, La corde au cou ("A rope around his neck", 1960) is about a remorseless killer, and he returned regularly to the genre over the years, including a series of novels featuring detective Charles Asselin in the 1980s. Several theatrical films were adapted from his novels, including Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) and Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal).

Honors

• 1960 – Prix du Cercle du livre de France
• 1965 – Prix Jean-Hamelin, Éthel et le terroriste
• 1970 – Prix Québec-Paris, La Sablière
• 1980 – Prix Ludger-Duvernay
• 1980 – Prix France-Canada, La Sablière
• 2016 – Prix Athanase-David (Prix du Québec)

References

1. Laila Maalouf and Josée Lapointe, "L’auteur Claude Jasmin est mort". La Presse, 29 April 2021.
2. "Quebec writer Claude Jasmin has died at age 91". CTV News, 29 April 2021.
3. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Corde au cou, La – Pierre Patry". Films du Québec, January 1, 2009.
4. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Délivrez-nous du mal – Film de Jean-Claude Lord". Films du Québec, January 8, 2009.

External links

• Claude Jasmin at IMDb

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