Élise Turcotte

Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise,[1] and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie,[2] as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989.
References[edit]
- ^ "Turcotte, Élise". 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Vie littéraire - Une ville en émoi". Le Devoir (in French). 5 October 2002. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
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