Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon was born on Oct 12, 1880 in France. Louis Hémon's big-screen debut came with Maria Chapdelaine directed by Julien Duvivier in 1934.

French author and novelist Louis Hémon was born in Brest, France, in 1880. His father was the Inspector-General of the University of Brest, and Louis was educated at the Ecole Coloniale, intending on a career in the diplomatic service. However, during his school days he wrote articles on sports events and some fiction stories for various Paris newspapers, and in 1906 he won a literary prize for one of his stories. He soon moved to London, England, where his writing career began to take off, and he met and married a local woman. However, the death of his wife in 1911 left him unable and unwilling to stay in London anymore, and he journeyed to Canada. He documented his travels in a journal, later published as "The Journal of Louis Hémon" (1924).