Hector De Saint-Denys Garneau

Canadian French-language poet, born in Montreal June 13, 1912 and died on October 24, 1943 in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Québec. He is considered one of the most important of Quebec's modern poets, even if he only published one volume of poetry, ''Regards et jeux dans l'espace'', in 1939. He is related to a number of other prominent Quebec writers, including historian François-Xavier Garneau (his great-grandfather), poet Alfred Garneau (his grandfather) and novelist and poet Anne Hébert (1916-2000, his first cousin). His early death added to his mystique and his poems have been set to music posthumously by a number of artists.