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René Lévesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team. In 1968 he founded the Parti Québécois (PQ). Under the PQ banner, Lévesque served as premier from 1976 to 1985.
Marguerite Paulin
Marguerite Paulin teaches at McGill University and also produces and hosts a radio program. She is also the author of René Lévesque (XYZ Publishing, 2004).
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Jonathan Kaplansky
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Jonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator of French in Montreal and won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's Things Seen and was shortlisted for the David Booth Award for Jonathan Bécotte's Like a Hurricane. He has also translated works Hélène Dorion, Lise Gauvin, Louis- Philippe Hébert, Hélène Rioux and Lise Tremblay.
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