France Daigle | |
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Born | Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | November 18, 1953
Occupation | Novelist, playwright, poet, columnist |
Genre | novels, plays, poetry, weekly column in L'Acadie Nouvelle |
Spouse | Berthe Theriault |
France Daigle (born 18 November 1953) is a Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity. Born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, she has published nine novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue. [1] She uses standard French in her narration.
She was awarded the 1999 France-Acadie award for her novel Pas Pire [2] and the 2002 Éloize award for Un fin passage. She has written three plays with the avant garde theatre company Moncton Sable. [3] She was formerly writer in residence at the University of Ottawa.
Daigle was awarded the 2011 Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts for French Language Literary Arts. [4] The following year she won the Governor General's Literary Prize in French fiction for her novel Pour sûr, the result of ten years of work. [5]
Pour sûr was selected for the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres , where it was defended by musician Édith Butler. [6]
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