Michèle Marineau Explained

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

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, the 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]

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, and is the mother of writer and illustrator Élise Gravel.^[4]

Selected works^{[2] [3]}

• Sur le rivage (1991), translation from Along the shore : tales by the sea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Le monde merveilleux de Marigold (1991), translation from Magic for Marigold by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Au-delà des ténèbres (1993), translation from Among the shadows by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Anne-- la maison aux pignons verts (1996), condensed translation from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Les vélos n'ont pas d'états d'âme (1998), translated into English as Lean Mean Machines (2000)
• Rouge poison (2000), received the Mr. Christie's Book Award
• Cendrillon (2000), retold from the version by Charles Perrault, translated into English as Cinderella (2007)
• L'affreux (2000), based on a First Nations legend
• Marion et le nouveau monde (2002), received the Prix Québec-Wallonie-Bruxelles
• Cassiopée (2002)
• La route de Chlifa (2010)
• Barbouillette! (2011)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michèle Marineau . Vancouver International Writers' Festival.
2. Web site: Marineau, Michèle . L'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains . fr.
3. Web site: Michèle Marineau . Communication-Jeunesse . fr.
4. Claudia Larochelle, "Élise Gravel, Michèle Marineau et François Gravel: Sainte tribu". Les libraires, April 21, 2015.