Anne Villeneuve (illustrator) explained

Anne Villeneuve
Birth Date:	7 September 1966
Birth Place:	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma Mater:	Dawson College
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Anne Villeneuve (born September 7, 1966) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books who lives in Quebec.

Life

She was born in Montreal and studied design and illustration at CEGEP Dawson. She was a finalist in the Communication-Jeunesse/Culinar competition.^[1] Villeneuve also has done artwork for scenery for Cirque du Soleil shows, murals for Red Bull and posters for the Dairy Farmers of Canada.^[2]

Selected works

• Arthur's Dad (1991), text by Ginette Anfousse,
• Une gardienne pour Étienne (1998),
• L'Écharpe Rouge (1999), translated as The Red Scarf (2005),
• Me voilà! (2004), text by Nathalie Savaria,
• Le nul et la chipie (2004), text by,
• Chère Traudi (2008),
• Loula et la recette fantasformidable, translated as Loula and the Sister Recipe (2014),
• Loula part pour l'Afrique, translated as Loula is Leaving for Africa (2014),

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Awards

• 1998: won a Mr. Christie's Book Award for Une gardienne pour Étienne.
• 1999: won the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for The Red Scarf.
• 1999: won the Prix Québec-Wallonie-Bruxelles de littérature de jeunesse for The Red Scarf.
• 1999: was shortlisted for a Mr. Christie's Book Award for The Red Scarf.
• 2004: won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Le nul et la chipie.
• 2008: won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for Chère Traudi.
• 2014: won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Loula is Leaving for Africa.^[3]
• 2014: shortlisted for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for Loula is Leaving for Africa.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anne Villeneuve . Communication-Jeunesse . fr . 2016-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901045548/http://www.communication-jeunesse.qc.ca/repertoires/createurs/fiches.php?id=53-56-4038 . 2018-09-01 . dead .
2. Web site: Anne Villeneuve . TD Canadian Children's Book Week . 2016-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160208095537/http://www.bookweek.ca/anne-villeneuve . 2016-02-08 . dead .
3. Web site: Teresa Toten, Anne Villeneuve win kids lit award. www.cbc.ca. 2016-02-11.