Roxane Turcotte

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Roxane Turcotte
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(2022)
Born1952
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationAuthor
LanguageFrench
Alma mater Université de Montréal
GenreChildren's and youth literature

Roxane Turcotte (born 1952) is a Canadian author of children's and youth literature. Born in Montreal, she lives in the Laurentians. Turcotte has written about forty books within the milieu of Quebec literature. She is the recipient of the 2017 Gaston Miron Excellence in French Award.

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Biography

Roxane Turcotte is a graduate of the Université de Montréal in art history and education sciences. She is a French teacher and pedagogical advisor at the Commission scolaire de Montréal. Turcotte was nominated in 2006 for the Bravo award, [1] for having included youth literature when teaching adult literacy learners and non-native-French-speakers, as well as for having participated in the first pajama story-telling sessions for infants in Montreal schools.

She creates and sporadically leads interactive literary workshops as part of the Quebec and Canada book fairs, Partir en livre [2] of the Centre national du livre de France and the Écrivains à l'école program of the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. She participates in the national tours of Lire à tout vent, Lis avec moi, and Semaine du livre TD.

In 2006, she published her first youth novel, Le vol de la corneille, with Loup de Gouttière [3] editions. She has subsequently published more than thirty children's books.

Awards and honours

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Programme de prix BRAVO!". Canadian Association of Communicators in Education (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Accueil". www.partir-en-livre.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Montpetit, Caroline (27 March 2008). "Littérature - Michel Brûlé achète les Éditions du Loup de Gouttière". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Éloi et le cheval de joie". Éditions de l'Isatis (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "Forêt de la lecture 2020 : le prix Peuplier", curio.ca(in French)
  6. ↑ "Livres". Groupe Livre (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Roxane Turcotte". Éditions de l'Isatis (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2023.
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