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Canadian novelist and playwright
Andrée A. Michaud
Andrée A. Michaud photographed in Montréal , Québec, Canada at the salon du livre de Montréal 2017.Andrée A. Michaud photographed in Montréal , Québec, Canada at the salon du livre de Montréal 2017.
BornNovember 12, 1957
Saint-Sébastien-de-Frontenac, Quebec
Occupationnovelist, playwright
NationalityCanadian
Period1980s-present
Notable works
  • Le ravissement (2001)
  • Bondrée (2013)

Andrée A. Michaud (born November 12, 1957) is a Canadian novelist and playwright from Quebec. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le ravissement at the 2001 Governor General's Awards and for Bondrée at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Ringuet in 2007 for Mirror Lake. Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler, was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

She is a graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal. In addition to her published novels, she has also written the plays Un paysage / Eine Landshaft / A Landscape and Cette petite chose for Quebec's Productions Recto-Verso theatre company.

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Awards and honours

  • 2001: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for Le ravissement
  • 2001: Prix littéraire des collégiennes et des collégiens for Le ravissement
  • 2007: Prix Ringuet for Mirror Lake
  • 2009: Prix Coup de cœur du club du polar de la Bibliothèque Mathilde-Massé for Lazy Bird
  • 2014: Prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier for Bondrée
  • 2014: Prix Coup de cœur du club du polar de la Bibliothèque Mathilde-Massé for Bondrée
  • 2014: Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for Bondrée
  • 2015: Arthur Ellis Award for Bondrée
  • 2017: Prix des lecteurs Quais du polar/20 minutes for Bondrée
  • 2017: Prix Rivages des libraires (France, Belgium and Switzerland) for Bondrée
  • 2019: Prix SNCF du polar for Bondrée
  • 2020: Arthur Ellis Award for Tempêtes
  • 2024: Prix du Polar Moussa Konaté for Proies

References

  1. ^ "Conférence de l'auteure Andrée A. Michaud". L'Œil régional, April 12, 2008.
  2. "Thomas King wins Governor General's award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
  3. "The Scotiabank Giller Prize Presents Its 2017 Longlist". Scotiabank Giller Prize, September 18, 2017.


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