Deux Femmes, Deux Rêves est l'histoire de deux femmes aux prises avec le quotidien et les rêves. Cette oeuvre se veut aussi le microcosme de l'histoire aventureuse et courageuse des Québécois émigrés aux États-Unis au début du vingtième siècle.
Norman Beaupre was born in southern Maine and educated bilingually, French and English. He earned an A.M. and a Ph.D from Brown University. He then joined the faculty of St. Francis College in Maine which became the University of New England. He taught French, world literature in translation, French Impressionism and a course on Transcultural Health Care.
He has traveled often to Paris and took two sabbaticals there. He went to Brazil on a Fulbright grant, took a leave of absence to study Spanish and the traditional healing(curanderismo)in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1997, and traveled to several other countries such as, Belgium, Croatia, Spain and Portugal. He has written eleven books. He writes in French and English. His latest novel, The Boy With the Blue Cap---Van Gogh in Arles, is his latest creative venture. He went to Arles and Amsterdam to do research for this novel. His one-woman play, a long dramatic monologue,was produced in Paris in October 2008 at the Theatre des Dechargeurs followed by two more performances, one in Dijon and the other in Angers.
He received several awards among which is the Order of Arts and Literature from the French Ministry in June 2008 for outstanding contributions to French culture.
