Lise Tremblay

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Lise Tremblay
Born (1957-06-13) 13 June 1957 (age 67)
Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Occupationnovelist
Notable awards Governor General's Award (1999)

Lise Tremblay (born 13 June 1957) is a French Canadian novelist.

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Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her first awards were presented at the Saguenay-Lac. St Jean book festival for her 1990 debut novel L'hiver de pluie. Her 1999 novel, La danse juive won that year's Governor General's Award for fiction. [1]

In recent years, she has been teaching literature in Montreal at Cégep du Vieux Montréal.

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

Further reading

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References

  1. Rothman, Claire (10 January 2004). "One town's sad plight". The Gazette (Montreal) . p. H4.
  2. Virag, Karen (14 May 2006). "Fiction with a Quebec accent". Edmonton Journal . p. E11.