Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska Explained
Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.[1] [2]
Early life and education
Ouellette-Michalska was born in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. She studied arts at the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec and the Université de Sherbrooke, where she received a PhD degree in 1987.
Career
Ouellette-Michalska began writing professionally in the 1960s. One of her well-known works is the 1984 novel La Maison Trestler,[3] [4] a work of historical fiction.[5] Her diary, La Tentation de dire, was published in 1985 and broadcast on CBC Radio-Canada.[6]
As well as fiction, Ouellette-Michalska also published a number of essays, including L'Amour de la carte postale in 1987.[7] She has contributed as a journalist to publications such as Perspectives and Le Devoir.
Ouellette-Michalska's sixth novel, L'Ete de l'ile de grace, won the 1993 France-Quebec literary prize.[8]
Works
- 1968: Dôme, short story
- 1979 : La Femme de sable, 112 pages,
(also translated into English as The Sandwoman, 112 pages,)
- 1981 : Entre le souffle et l'aine, poetry, 156 pages,
- 1981 : L'Échappée de discours de l'œil, essay, 344 pages,
- 1984 : La Maison Trestler, ou Le 8e jour d'Amérique, novel.
(also translated by W. Donald Wilson into English as The Trestler House, 300 pages,)[9]
- 1985 : La Tentation de dire ("The temptation of saying"), diary, 172 pages.
- 1987 : L'Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence ("Postcard love"), essay, 260 pages,
Le Plat de lentilles ("Lentil dish"), novel,
La Danse de l'amante ("Lover's dance"), theatre, 64 pages,
- 1989 : La fête du désir, novel, 149 pages.
- 1990 : La termitière, 150 pages,
- 1992 : Léo-Paul Tremblé, biography
- 1993 : L'Été de l'île de Grâce ("The summer of Grace's Island"), novel, 280 pages.
- 1997 : La Passagère ("The passenger"), novel, 192 pages,
- 1999 : Les Sept Nuits de Laura ("Laura's seven nights"), novel, 123 pages,
- 2000 : L'Amérique un peu ("A little bit of America"), poems
- 2002 : Le Cycle des migrations ("Cycle of migrations"), poems,
- 2006 : L'Apprentissage ("The apprenticeship"), novel, 138 pages, .
- 2007 : Autofiction et dévoilement de soi ("Self-fiction and self-unveiling"), essay, 156 pages.
- 2010 : Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages, [10]
- 2012 : La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages.
Prizes
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/madeleine-ouellette-michalska/ Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's
- Quebec Since 1930. James Lorimer & Company; 1991. . p. 579–.
- http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/entrevues/201205/18/01-4526473-madeleine-ouellette-michalska-double-memoire.php "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska : double mémoire"
- https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/428112/paysage-et-patrimoine-la-nostalgie-du-paradis-perdu "La nostalgie du paradis perdu"
- https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/12809/13807 "Le Premier Jardin d'Anne Hébert et La Maison Trestler de Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska"
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299095887_An_analysis_of_the_discrepancies_between_Madeleine_Ouellette-Michalska%27s_diaries_broadcasted_by_Radio_Canada_and_her_published_version_La_%27Tentation_de_Dire%27_-_The_theory_and_practice_of_autobiography "An analysis of the discrepancies between Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's diaries broadcasted by Radio Canada and her published version, La 'Tentation de Dire' - The theory and practice of autobiography"
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287qr0 Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939
- https://www.proquest.com/docview/436927161 "Novel A Winner"
- Karen S. McPherson. Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 2006. . p. 14–.
- http://www.spiralemagazine.com/editorial-magazine/le-fil-du-rasoir "Le prix Spirale Eva-Le-Grand 2010 du nouveau !"
