Category Archives: Emile Nelligan

English Translation of Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le Fou” in Winning Writers

Posted on September 1, 2016 by julian peters comics

The latest issue of the Winning Writers (https://winningwriters.com/) newsletter is out today, and it features my comics adaptation of nineteenth-century Montreal poet Émile Nelligan’s “Déraison” and “Le fou”, now accompanied with my English translation of the two poems. I am reproducing … Continue reading →

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Nelligan à Cacouna

Posted on January 14, 2014 by julian peters comics

The Montreal writer and poet Diane G. Paquin and I have begun collaborating on a project (in French) centered around the famed Quebec poet Émile Nelligan (1879-1941). Here is a little preview. This scene is set in Cacouna, then a … Continue reading →

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Soir d’hiver by Émile Nelligan

Posted on October 10, 2012 by julian peters comics

Possibly the most famous lines in the history of Quebec poetry, from Soir d’hiver (c.1898) by Émile Nelligan: “Oh! How the snow’s been snowing!/My window pane is a garden of frost./Oh! How the snow’s been snowing!/What’s the spasm of living/Next … Continue reading →

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Julian Peters Comics

Posted on November 18, 2010 by julian peters comics
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