Carole Corbeil
Carole Corbeil | |
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| Born | 1952 |
| Died | 2000 (aged 47–48) |
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| Period | 1979–2000 |
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| Notable awards | Toronto Book Award (1993) |
| Spouse | Layne Coleman |
| Children | Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman |
Carole Corbeil (1952–2000) was a Canadian arts critic and novelist.[1] She was born in Montreal to Québécois parents. Her writing was informed by the cultural displacement and sense of dual belonging that she experienced when her parents divorced and her mother married an anglophone man.[2]
Biography
[edit]Corbeil was raised and educated exclusively in French in childhood, and later transferred to a private English school, Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School,[3] after her mother's remarriage.[4] She spent some time as a teenager studying in Wales under the International Baccalaureate program, before undertaking studies at York University in Toronto.[4]
First known as an arts reporter for The Globe and Mail in the 1980s,[5] she published her debut novel Voice-Over in 1992.[1] The novel centres on a documentary filmmaker from Quebec from childhood through to her adult relationship with an English Canadian poet;[6] although it includes passages in both English and French, one critic praised its code-switching as "done in such a clever way that the French is understandable to a person with only the basic vocabulary."[4] Voice-Over was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award[7] and the Trillium Book Award,[8] and was a co-winner with David Donnell's China Blues of the Toronto Book Award in 1993.[9]
In the 1990s, she wrote a weekly arts column for the Toronto Star. She was also a contributor to This Magazine, Canadian Art and Saturday Night, and won two National Magazine Awards for her writing.[10]
She published her second novel, In the Wings, in 1997.[11] The novel centred on the relationship between actors playing Hamlet and Gertrude in a stage production of Hamlet.[12] A stage adaptation of In the Wings by Nicky Guadagni was staged by Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille in 2002.[13]
Corbeil was married to actor Layne Coleman. Their daughter, Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, is an actor and playwright.[14]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Levesque, John (May 9, 1992). "Voice-Over a smash success". Hamilton Spectator.
- ↑ Beverly Slopen, "Bridging two solitudes". Toronto Star, February 1, 1992.
- ↑ "Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School : 1968-69" (PDF). Ecsarchives.ca. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- 1 2 3 "Journalist scored a hit with first novel: Voice-over a best-seller". National Post. October 16, 2000.
- ↑ Van Luven, Lynne (March 29, 1992). "Clever 'bilingual' novel updates the two solitudes". Edmonton Journal.
- ↑ Rigelhof, T.F. (May 2, 1992). "Novelist found her voice in Toronto; Carole Corbeil's book is already called a classic". Montreal Gazette.
- ↑ "Corbeil among five on first-novel list". Montreal Gazette. March 6, 1993.
- ↑ "Trillium finalists announced". The Globe and Mail. February 24, 1993.
- ↑ Smith, Michael (September 27, 1993). "Word on the Street festival celebrates 4th successful year". Toronto Star.
- 1 2 "Columnist, novelist Carole Corbeil dies of cancer". Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. October 9, 2000.
- ↑ Renzetti, Elizabeth (September 20, 1997). "A former critic lays it on the line: After years of writing about others, Carole Corbeil now faces being written about herself". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Marchand, Phillip (September 20, 1997). "Elsinore's family values". Toronto Star.
- ↑ Cushman, Robert (November 13, 2002). "Actors are people too". National Post.
- ↑ Ouzounian, Richard (2008-10-04). "A very personal family drama". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
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- 1952 births
- 2000 deaths
- Canadian art critics
- Canadian women art critics
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Journalists from Montreal
- 20th-century Canadian women journalists
- 20th-century Canadian journalists
- 20th-century Canadian women novelists
- Canadian literary critics
- Canadian women literary critics
- Canadian theatre critics
- People educated at Atlantic College
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- York University alumni
- Novelists from Montreal