Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

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

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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]

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