Editing Alice Parizeau (section)

==Career==
As a Quebecer, Parizeau was strongly associated with Montreal's intellectual and sovereigntist scenes, respectively. While best known as a novelist and journalist &mdash; she wrote for ''[[Cité libre]]'', ''[[La Presse (Canada)|La Presse]]'', ''[[Châtelaine]]'', ''[[Le Devoir]]'', ''[[La Patrie (Canadian newspaper)|La Patrie]]'' and ''[[Maclean's]]'' &mdash; Parizeau held a number of other positions. These included civil servant with the City of [[Montreal]], researcher for [[Société Radio-Canada]] and, most notably, criminology researcher,<ref name="Strong-Boag2011">{{cite book|author=Veronica Strong-Boag|title=Fostering Nation?: Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RjaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT193|date=28 September 2011|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-798-8|pages=193–}}</ref> lecturer and secretary-general of the Centre international de criminologie comparée at the [[Université de Montréal]], where she served for many years as the ''de facto'' assistant director to [[Denis Szabo]], founder of modern criminology in Quebec.

Parizeau's writing was known for its outstanding storytelling and sensitive treatment of themes relating both to the Quebec people, which she portrayed in romantic terms congruent with the sovereignty movement's ideals, and life in and exile from Poland. She won the ''Prix européen de l'Association des écrivains de langue française'' in 1982 for her novel ''Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie'' (translated as ''The Lilacs are Blooming in Warsaw''). In 1987, she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. Many members of the [[Quebec sovereignty movement]], including the press, criticised her for accepting an honour from the [[Governor General of Canada]].