Andrée A. Michaud
Appearance
Andrée A. Michaud | |
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Born | November 12, 1957 Saint-Sébastien-de-Frontenac, Quebec |
Occupation | novelist, playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1980s-present |
Notable works |
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Andrée A. Michaud (born November 12, 1957)[1] is a Canadian novelist and playwright from Quebec. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le ravissement at the 2001 Governor General's Awards[1] and for Bondrée at the 2014 Governor General's Awards,[2] and won the Prix Ringuet in 2007 for Mirror Lake.[1] Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler, was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[3]
She is a graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1] In addition to her published novels, she has also written the plays Un paysage / Eine Landshaft / A Landscape and Cette petite chose for Quebec's Productions Recto-Verso theatre company.[1]
Works
[edit]- La femme de Sath (1987, ISBN 2890373304)
- Portraits d'après modèles (1991, ISBN 978-2760931404)
- Alias Charlie (1994, ISBN 978-2760931619)
- Les derniers jours de Noah Eisenbaum (1998, ISBN 978-2895021087)
- Le ravissement (2001, ISBN 978-2895021759)
- Le Pendu de Trempes (2004, ISBN 978-2764403761)
- Mirror Lake (2006, ISBN 978-2764405109)
- Translation: Mirror Lake (2021)
- Lazy Bird (2010, ISBN 978-2021022995)
- Rivière Tremblante (2011, ISBN 978-2-7644-0952-7)
- Translation: Trembling River (2023)
- Bondrée (2013, ISBN 978-2-7644-2505-3)
- Translation: Boundary: The Last Summer (2017, ISBN 9781771961097)
- Routes secondaires (2017, ISBN 9782764432273)
- Translation: Back Roads (2020, ISBN 9781487005818)
- Tempêtes (2019)
- Proies (2022)
Awards and honours
[edit]- 2001: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for Le ravissement
- 2001: Prix littéraire des collégiennes et des collégiens for Le ravissement
- 2007: Prix Ringuet for Mirror Lake
- 2009: Prix Coup de cœur du club du polar de la Bibliothèque Mathilde-Massé for Lazy Bird
- 2014: Prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier for Bondrée
- 2014: Prix Coup de cœur du club du polar de la Bibliothèque Mathilde-Massé for Bondrée
- 2014: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for Bondrée
- 2015: Arthur Ellis Award for Bondrée
- 2017: Prix des lecteurs Quais du polar/20 minutes for Bondrée
- 2017: Prix Rivages des libraires (France, Belgium and Switzerland) for Bondrée
- 2019: Prix SNCF du polar for Bondrée
- 2020: Arthur Ellis Award for Tempêtes
- 2024: Prix du Polar Moussa Konaté for Proies
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Conférence de l'auteure Andrée A. Michaud". L'Œil régional, April 12, 2008.
- ^ "Thomas King wins Governor General's award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
- ^ "The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents Its 2017 Longlist". Scotiabank Giller Prize, September 18, 2017.
Categories:
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
- Writers from Quebec
- People from Estrie
- Canadian novelists in French
- Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Université Laval alumni
- Quebec writer stubs