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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
Critical bibliography database (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
1957 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Writers from Quebec Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Université de Sherbrooke alumni Canadian poets in French 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French {{Canada-poet-stub
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
The University of Sherbrooke (French: Université de Sherbrooke) (UdS) is a large public French-language university in Quebec, Canada with campuses located in Sherbrooke and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It i ...
. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP
A CEGEP ( or ; ), also written cégep, CÉGEP and cegep, is a publicly funded college providing technical, academic, vocational or a mix of programs; they are exclusive to the province of Quebec's education system. A loanword from French, i ...
in Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie
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, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award
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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.
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Critical bibliography database (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
1957 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Writers from Quebec Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Université de Sherbrooke alumni Canadian poets in French 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French {{Canada-poet-stub