{"id":113549,"date":"2017-08-23T03:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113549"},"modified":"2017-08-23T03:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:33:59","slug":"monumental-quebec-author-rejean-ducharme-dead-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/23\/monumental-quebec-author-rejean-ducharme-dead-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental Quebec author, Rejean Ducharme, dead at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Rejean Ducharme, a well-known Quebec author and playwright credited with influencing the province&#8217;s culture during the Quiet Revolution with his famous debut novel, \u201cThe Swallower Swallowed,\u201d has died at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>The reclusive Ducharme rarely attended public events and had shied away from the media since the 1960s, but his influence on Quebec culture continued through the decades.<\/p>\n<p>He was named Officer of the Order of Quebec in 2000 and in 2016, the Quebec government named the 1966 publication of \u201cThe Swallower Swallowed\u201d as a \u201chistorical event\u201d due to it being an \u201cemblem of the effervescence of Quebec literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book, published in France, is an interior monologue of a young girl who rejects the world of adults and traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>Its prose is considered to be of exceptional\u00a0beauty\u00a0and it won the 1966 Governor General&#8217;s Award when Ducharme was only 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Ducharme continued writing throughout his life despite his refusal to attend public events honouring his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Rejean Ducharme, a well-known Quebec author and playwright credited with influencing the province&#8217;s culture during the Quiet Revolution &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[21728,21729],"class_list":["post-113549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-rejean-ducharme","tag-the-swallower-swallowed","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}