Michèle Mailhot (January 8, 1932 – January 2009) was a

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writer. The daughter of Arthur Asselin and Gabrielle Payette, she was born Michèle Asselin in

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and went on to earn a BA and a

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from the

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. She taught for several years and then worked as a journalist for ''Points de vue'', ''Le Nouveau Journal'' and

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. From 1961 to 1965, Mailhot was literary critic for ''

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''. From 1969 to 1971, she was vice-director of the Presses universitaires de Montréal. From 1972 to 1972, she was literary adviser for the publishing house Éditions du Jour. From 1976 to 1977, she was editor for the publishing house Éditions de l'Étincelle. Mailhot also worked as a reader for various publishing houses. She wrote a number of short stories for the magazines ''Liberté'', ''La Barre du Jour'' and '' The Massachusetts Review''. In 1964, she published her first novel ''Dis-moi que je vis''. Her novel ''Veuillez agréer...'', published in 1975, received the Prix de la Presse in 1975; it was translated into English as ''Coming of age'' in 1988. Mailhot died in Outremont at the age of 77 after an extended illness.

Selected works

Source: * ''Le Fou de la reine'' (1969) * ''La mort de l'araignée'' (1972), translated into English as ''Death of the spider'' (1991) * ''La vie arrachée'' (1984) * ''Notes de parcours'' (1986) * ''Béatrice vue d'en bas'' (1988), received the Grand Prix de la prose from the Journal de Montréal * ''Le passé composé'' (1990), was shortlisted for the

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in 1990

References

1932 births 2009 deaths Canadian short story writers in French Canadian novelists in French Canadian women short story writers Canadian women novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers Université de Montréal alumni 20th-century Canadian short story writers Novelists from Montreal {{Quebec-writer-stub