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 [fr], the Prix 12/17 Brive-Montréal [fr] 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, 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)

References

  1. ^ a b "Michèle Marineau". Vancouver International Writers' Festival.
  2. ^ a b "Marineau, Michèle" (in French). L'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  3. ^ a b c "Michèle Marineau" (in French). Communication-Jeunesse.
  4. ^ Claudia Larochelle, "Élise Gravel, Michèle Marineau et François Gravel: Sainte tribu". Les libraires, April 21, 2015.


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