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Yves Velan was born in Montreal, Canada, on August 29, 1925. He is a renowned Canadian writer and playwright. He is best known for his plays, which have been performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Velan studied at the University of Montreal and the Sorbonne in Paris. He began writing plays in the 1950s, and his first play, "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," was produced in Montreal in 1959. He has since written more than 30 plays, including "The Great Divide," "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," and "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Velan has won numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General's Award for Drama in 1971 and the Molson Prize in 1975. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982. Velan is currently 92 years old. He is married and has two children. He lives in Montreal.

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1959

His first novel Je was published in 1959 in Paris. He also published two novels, La Statue de Condillac retouchée (1973), Soft Goulag (1977) and an essay, Contre-pouvoir, where he questions culture and its requirements. In addition to these books, there are numerous publications in reviews, a "essay-poem", Onir (1974), a tale, Le Chat muche (1986). Moreover, during the years 1950 to 1980, he had an important activity of criticism published in France, the United States and French-speaking Switzerland.

1957

A communist, he was a member of the Swiss Party of Labour from the end of the war until 1957. He was forbidden to work and was excluded from teaching in the Canton of Vaud. He then moved to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel where he taught literature at the gymnasium until his retirement in 1991. In the late sixties he temporarily left the Neuchâtel Jura for a long stay in the United States where he taught French literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

1950

He studied literature at Lausanne, where he joined the Society of Belles Lettres, and worked two years as a reader at the University of Florence. In 1950 he was one of the founders the leftist co-operative publishing house, Éditions Rencontre which published the literary magazine La revue Rencontre.

1925

Yves Velan, (29 August 1925 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne – 6 May 2017) was a Swiss writer from Bassins.