Roxane Turcotte (born 1952) is a Canadian author of children's and youth literature. Born in
Montreal, she lives in the
Laurentians. Turcotte has written about forty books within the milieu of
Quebec literature. She is the recipient of the 2017
Gaston Miron
Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron'', whose ...
Excellence in French Award.
Biography
Roxane Turcotte is a graduate of the
Université de Montréal in
art history and
education sciences
Education sciences or education theory (traditionally often called ''pedagogy'') seek to describe, understand, and prescribe education policy and practice. Education sciences include many topics, such as pedagogy, andragogy, curriculum, learning, ...
. She is a French teacher and pedagogical advisor at the
Commission scolaire de Montréal. Turcotte was nominated in 2006 for the Bravo award,
for having included youth literature when teaching adult literacy learners and non-native-French-speakers, as well as for having participated in the first pajama story-telling sessions for infants in Montreal schools.
She creates and sporadically leads interactive literary workshops as part of the Quebec and Canada book fairs,
of the
Centre national du livre
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de France and the program of the
Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. She participates in the national tours of , , and .
In 2006, she published her first youth novel, ''Le vol de la corneille'', with Loup de Gouttière
editions. She has subsequently published more than thirty children's books.
Awards and honours
* Prix Tamarac 2018 and Peuplier 2020 from the in
Toronto for her, ''Éloi et le cheval de joie''
["Forêt de la lecture 2020 : le prix Peuplier", ''curio.ca'' ] and ''Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre''.
* Francophonie selection of the 2019 Saint-Exupéry Prize for ''Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre''
* 2017
Gaston Miron
Gaston Miron (; 8 January 1928 – 14 December 1996) was an important poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic ''L'homme rapaillé'' (partly translated as ''The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron'', whose ...
Excellence in French Award
Selected works
* ''Emma et le tableau volé'', 2021
* ''Énigme au Jardin botanique,'', 2021
* ''Mystères au château Frontenac,'' , 2020
* ''Le manoir aux secrets,'', 2020
* ''Des voix d’épouvante,'', 2020
* ''Sol ! Sol ! Sol !'', 2020
* ''Adam, les fleurs et le voleur'', 2019
* ''Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre'', 2019
* ''Emma et la fête masquée,'', 2019
* ''Le secret de Ratapatapan !'', 2018
* ''Le lapin au grand cœur et Lulu Lustucru'', 2018
* ''Plic, ploc !'', 2018
* ''Raoul de Poupoupidou,'', 2018
* ''Saperlifourchette !'', 2017
* ''Éloi et, le cheval de joie'', 2017
* ''L’arc-en-ciel de la rivière'', 2017
* ''Antoine Labelle, curé et Roi du Nord'', 2016
* ''Le piège de l’inconnue'', 2016
* ''Miam, miam !'' , 2016
* ''Le lapin au grand cœur'', 2016
* ''Ça suffit, monsieur l’Ogre'', 2015
* ''La perle des neiges'', 2014
* ''La chasse au voleur'', 2012
* ''Zébulon, le zèbre caméléon'', 2012
* ''Marion et la vie qui bat'', 2012
* ''Pic et le grand pin blanc'', 2011
* ''Crac ! Qui va là ?'', 2011
* ''Max, débusqueur de secrets'', 2011
* ''Girafe givrée'', 2010
* ''Chevalier Poids-Plume'', 2010
* ''Zoé et la sorcière'', 2009
* ''Le Vol de la corneille'', 2006
References
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1952 births
Living people
Writers from Montreal
Canadian children's writers
Canadian women children's writers
Université de Montréal alumni