Réal Ouellet
Réal Ouellet (29 September 1935 – 20 February 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic. Biography
After his studies in psychology and literature at the Université Laval, Ouellet earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1963 with a thesis titled "Les relations humaines dans l’œuvre de Saint-Exupéry". That year, he became teaching literature at Laval. He was one of the founders of  in 1968. Ouellet was a specialist on literature, theatre, and literary representations of New France and the French West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was the first president of the Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle and organized its congress in 1975 in Quebec City. In 1988, he received a Killam grant in 1988 from the Canada Council. In January 2007 he co-led a symposium titled "Représentation, métissage et pouvoir. La dynamique coloniale des échanges entre Autochtones, Européens et Canadiens" alongside . Ouellet died in Quebec City on 20 February 2022, at the age of 86. Publications

Studies
Les relations humaines dans l’œuvre de Saint-Exupéry (1971)
L’univers du roman (1972)
Lettres persanes (1976)
L’Univers du théâtre (1978)
La Relation de voyage en Amérique (xvie – xviiie siècles). Au carrefour des genres (2010)

Collective works
Rhétorique et conquête missionnaire. Le jésuite Paul Lejeune (1993)
Culture et colonisation en Amérique du Nord : Canada, États-Unis, Mexique. Culture and Colonization in North America : Canada, United States, Mexico (1994)
Transferts culturels et métissages. Amérique/Europe, xvie – xxe siècles (1996)
Mythes et géographies des mers du Sud. Études suivies de l'Histoire des navigations aux Terres australes de Charles de Brosses (2006)

Novels
L’aventurier du hasard. Le baron de Lahontan. Roman (1996)
Regards et dérives. Nouvelles (1997)
Par ailleurs. Nouvelles (2005)
Cet océan qui nous sépare (2008)

References

1935 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
French Quebecers
Canadian academics
Academics in Quebec
Université Laval alumni
University of Paris alumni
People from Bas-Saint-Laurent
Academic staff of Université Laval
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian non-fiction writers in French
Canadian male non-fiction writers