Career
Born in Montreal, Marchessault worked in a textile factory in her youth before travelling extensively in the late 1950s on a journey of self-discovery that would inform much of her work. By 1970, she was regularly exhibiting artwork in Montreal, Toronto, New York City, Paris and Brussels. She published her first novel, ''Le Crachat solaire'', in 1975; this would be the first volume in her ''Comme une enfant de la terre'' trilogy, which also included the novels ''La Mère des herbes'' (1981) and ''Des Cailloux blancs pour les forêts obscures'' (1987). As a playwright, she published numerous plays; her early works ''Les Vaches de nuit'', ''Les Faiseuses d'anges'' and ''Chronique lesbienne du moyen-âge québécois'' were also republished in 1980 in one volume as ''Triptyque lesbien''. Marchessault contributed as a journalist to publications such as '' Le Devoir'', '' Châtelaine'', ''La Vie en rose'', ''La Nouvelle barre du jour'', '' Fireweed'' and ''13 Moon''. She co-founded the publishing house Squawtach Press, and was a lecturer in the theater department at the Université du Québec à Montréal.Awards and honors
Marchessault's play ''La Terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc'' was a nominee for French-language Drama at theWorks
Novels (The ''Comme une enfant de la terre'' trilogy)
References
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