Norman R. Beaupré
Biddeford, Maine

Biography

photo by Nick Cowenhoven

Norman Beaupré was born in Southern Maine and grew up speaking French in Biddeford, Maine. He did his undergraduate studies at St. Francis College in Biddeford Pool and then moved on to Brown University for graduate work and received his Ph.D. in French literature in 1974.

In 2000, he became Professor Emeritus after 30 years of teaching Francophone and World Literature at the University of New England. Traveling extensively, he spent two sabbaticals in Europe where he got the inspiration for several of his books.

Beaupré writes in French and in English. His first book, L'Enclume et le Couteau - the Life and Works of Adelard Coté, was published in 1982 by the National Materials Development Center in Bedford, N.H and is now out of print.

His latest book, La Souillonne, Deusse, has has just been released by Llumina Press. It is a sequel to his very well received 2006 book, La Souillonne, monologue sur scène. This is Beaupré's 9th book: a bilingual one on folk art, five in French and three in English. La Souillonne was performed in Paris in October2007 with a Maine actress, Marie Cormier. Then its on to Dijon and Angers.

This past June, Beaupré was decorated with the Medal of the Order of Arts and Literature, Grade Officier by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications.

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