Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. ^{[1] [2]}

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, ^{[3] [4]} a work of historical fiction. ^[5] Her diary, La Tentation de dire, was published in 1985 and broadcast on CBC Radio-Canada. ^[6]

As well as fiction, Ouellette-Michalska also published a number of essays, including L'Amour de la carte postale in 1987. ^[7] 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. ^[8]

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) ^[9]
• 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 Passagère ("The passenger"), 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 ^[10]
• 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

1. Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.
2. Quebec Since 1930 . James Lorimer & Company; 1991. ISBN   978-1-55028-296-2. p. 579–.
3. "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska : double mémoire". La Presse, 18 May 2012. Josée Lapointe
4. "La nostalgie du paradis perdu". Le Devoir, Yves Hébert 6 January 2015
5. "Le Premier Jardin d'Anne Hébert et La Maison Trestler de Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska". SCL, Volume 27, Number 1 (2002) . Elena Marchese, Université d'Ottawa
6. "An analysis of the discrepancies between Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's diaries broadcasted by Radio Canada and her published version, La 'Tentation de Dire' - The theory and practice of autobiography". Etudes Litteraires, 31(2):107-118 · December 1999
7. Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939. 2010. Andrée Lévesque Translated by Yvonee M. Klein
8. "Novel A Winner". Toronto Star, - Toronto, Ont. Oct 14, 1993. Page: E.7
9. Karen S. McPherson. Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 2006. ISBN   978-0-7735-6022-2. p. 14–.
10. "Le prix Spirale Eva-Le-Grand 2010 du nouveau !" Spirale.

External links

• (in French) Information