Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the

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and later received her doctorate at the

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. She now teaches literature at a

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, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003

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for her novel ''La Maison étrangère'' and the

Prix Émile-Nelligan The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the ...

for ''La voix de Carla'' in 1987 and for ''La terre est ici'' in 1989.

Works

Novels

* ''Le Bruit des choses vivantes'', Leméac, Montréal / Actes sud, Arles, 1991 * ''L'Île de la Merci'', Leméac, Montréal, 1997 * ''La Maison étrangère'', Leméac, Montréal, 2002 * ''Pourquoi faire une maison avec ses morts'', Leméac, Montréal, 2007 * ''Guyana, Leméac'', Montréal, 2011 * ''Le Parfum de la tubéreuse'', Éditions Alto, Québec, 2015 * ''L'Apparition du chevreuil'', Éditions Alto, Québec, 2019 * ''Autoportrait d'une autre'', Éditions Alto, Québec, 2023

Short story collections

* ''Caravane'', Bibliothèque québécoise, Montréal, 1994

Poetry

* ''Dans le delta de la nuit'', Les Écrits des forges, Trois-Rivières, 1982 * ''Navires de guerre'', Les Écrits des forges, Trois-Rivières, 1984 * ''La Catastrophe'', avec Louise Desjardins, NBJ, Montréal, 1985 * ''La Voix de Carla'', VLB, Montréal, 1987 * ''Sombre Ménagerie'', éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2002 * ''La terre est ici'', VLB, Montréal, 2003 * ''Piano mélancolique'', éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2005 * ''Ce qu'elle voit'', éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2010 * ''La forme du jour'', éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2016 * ''À mon retour'', éditions du Noroît, Montréal, 2022

Essays

* ''Autobiographie de l'esprit'', La Mèche, Montréal, 2013

Children's literature

Novels

* ''Les Cahiers d'Annette'', La courte échelle, Montréal, 1998 * ''La Leçon d'Annette'', La courte échelle, Montréal, 1999 * ''Annette et le vol de nui''t, La courte échelle, Montréal, 2000 * ''Le Meilleur Ennemi d'Annette'', La courte échelle, Montréal, 2006

Poetry

* ''Voyages autour de mon lit'', La courte échelle, Montréal, 2002 * ''Rose : derrière le rideau de la folie'', La courte échelle, Montréal, 2009

Awards and honours

* 1987:

for ''La voix de Carla'' * 1989: Prix Émile-Nelligan for ''La Terre est ici'' * 1992: Prix Louis-Hémon for ''Le Bruit des choses vivantes'' * 2002: Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie * 2003: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for ''La Maison étrangère'' * 2010: Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature for ''Rose : derrière le rideau de la folie'' * 2011: Grand Prix du livre de Montréal for ''Guyana'' * 2021: Prix Ringuet for ''L'apparition du chevreuil'' * 2024:

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"Rémy Girard et Élise Turcotte parmi les lauréats des Prix du Québec"

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, October 16, 2024.

References

External links

Critical bibliography database (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
1957 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Poets from Quebec Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award–winning fiction writers Université de Sherbrooke alumni Canadian poets in French 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French Prix Athanase-David winners Novelists from Quebec {{Canada-poet-stub