Canadian writer from Quebec (born 1930)

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Works
• 4 Prizes
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life and education

Ouellette-Michalska was born in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. She studied arts at the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec and the Université de Sherbrooke, where she received a PhD degree in 1987.

Career

Ouellette-Michalska began writing professionally in the 1960s. One of her well-known works is the 1984 novel La Maison Trestler, a work of historical fiction. Her diary, La Tentation de dire, was published in 1985 and broadcast on CBC Radio-Canada.

As well as fiction, Ouellette-Michalska also published a number of essays, including L'Amour de la carte postale in 1987. She has contributed as a journalist to publications such as Perspectives and Le Devoir.

Ouellette-Michalska's sixth novel, L'Ete de l'ile de grace, won the 1993 France-Quebec literary prize.

Works

• 1968: Dôme, short story
• 1979:: La Femme de sable, 112 pages, ISBN:978-2892950151
  (also translated into English as The Sandwoman, 112 pages, ISBN:978-0920717240)
• 1981:: Entre le souffle et l'aine, poetry, 156 pages, ISBN:978-2890180543
• 1981:: L'Échappée de discours de l'œil, essay, 344 pages, ISBN:978-2892950410
• 1984:: La Maison Trestler, ou Le 8e jour d'Amérique, novel. ISBN:978-2890371958
  (also translated by W. Donald Wilson into English as The Trestler House, 300 pages, ISBN:978-1550712773)
• 1985:: La Tentation de dire ("The temptation of saying"), diary, 172 pages. ISBN:978-2890372450
• 1987:: L'Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence ("Postcard love"), essay, 260 pages, ISBN:978-2890373327
  Le Plat de lentilles ("Lentil dish"), novel, ISBN:978-2891510004
  La Danse de l'amante ("Lover's dance"), theatre, 64 pages, ISBN:978-2890240513
• 1989:: La fête du désir, novel, 149 pages. ISBN:978-2890374911
• 1990:: La termitière, 150 pages, ISBN:978-2890053441
• 1992:: Léo-Paul Tremblé, biography
• 1993:: L'Été de l'île de Grâce ("The summer of Grace's Island"), novel, 280 pages. ISBN:978-2892951820
• 1997:: La P*agère ("The p*enger"), novel, 192 pages, ISBN:978-2890379213
• 1999:: Les Sept Nuits de Laura ("Laura's seven nights"), novel, 123 pages, ISBN:978-2890241305
• 2000:: L'Amérique un peu ("A little bit of America"), poems
• 2002:: Le Cycle des migrations ("Cycle of migrations"), poems, ISBN:978-2890184947
• 2006:: L'Apprentissage ("The apprenticeship"), novel, 138 pages, ISBN:978-2892614640.
• 2007:: Autofiction et dévoilement de soi ("Self-fiction and self-unveiling"), essay, 156 pages. ISBN:978-2892614862
• 2010:: Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages, ISBN:978-2892615708
• 2012:: La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages. ISBN:978-2892616996

Prizes

• 1981 - Winner, Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction for L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
• 1984 - Finalist, Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for La Maison Trestler
• 1984 - Winner, Prix Molson du roman for La Maison Trestler ou le 8ème jour d'Amérique
• 1985 - Inducted into the Académie des lettres du Québec
• 1993 - Prix Jean-Hamelin, L'Été de l'île de Grâce
• 1993 - Prix Arthur-Buies
• 1998 - Gold Medal from the Renaissance française
• 2002 - Grand Prix littéraire de la Montérégie

References

External links

• (in French) Information