Michèle Marineau

Michèle Marineau (born 1955) is a Canadian writer and translator living in Quebec.[1]

She was born in Montreal and studied medicine, the history of art and translation at the Université de Montréal.[1] She worked for several years as a freelance editor. She published her first novel Cassiopée ou l'été polonais in 1988; it received the Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature. It has been translated into Swedish, Spanish and Catalan. Her 1992 novel La Route de Chlifa received the Prix Alvine-Bélisle, the Prix 12/17 Brive-Montréal and a Governor General's Literary Award. It was translated into English in 1995 as The Road to Chlifa, also appearing in Danish and in Dutch.[2][3]

She was a finalist for the John Glassco Translation Prize and also appeared three times on the short lists for the Governor General's award for translation.[3]

She is married to writer François Gravel.[4]

Selected works[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Michèle Marineau". Vancouver International Writers' Festival.
  2. 1 2 "Marineau, Michèle" (in French). L'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  3. 1 2 3 "Michèle Marineau" (in French). Communication-Jeunesse.
  4. ↑ "Michèle Marineau". Salon du livre de Hearst (in French).


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