Marie-Danielle Croteau

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Marie-Danielle Croteau (born August 1, 1953) is a Canadian writer of youth literature living in Quebec and Central America.

Quebec Province of Canada

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

Central America central geographic region of the Americas

Central America is a region found in the southern tip of North America and is sometimes defined as a subcontinent of the Americas. This region is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The combined population of Central America is estimated to be between 41,739,000 and 42,688,190.

She was born in Saint-Élie-d'Orford (now Sherbrooke) in the Estrie region and studied communications and art history in university. She worked as a journalist, as a researcher and radio columnist for Radio-Canada and was Chief Information Officer for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has travelled to Africa, to France, to the Antilles, to Polynesia and to Central America. She has participated in various book shows in Quebec and France and was the guest of honour at the Salon du livre de Montréal  [ fr ] in 1999. [1] [2] Her books have been translated into English, Portuguese, Chinese and Créole. [3]

Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville Borough in Quebec, Canada

Rock Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Sherbrooke City in Quebec, Canada

Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 161,323 residents at the 2016 census, Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec and the thirtieth largest in Canada. The Sherbrooke Census Metropolitan Area had 212,105 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada.

Estrie Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

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Selected works [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Croteau, Marie-Danielle" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. 1 2 "Marie-Danielle Croteau" (in French). Dominique et Compagnie.
  3. 1 2 "Marie-Danielle Croteau" (in French). Les 400 Coups.
  4. "Prizes and Awards" (in French). la courte échelle.