Andrée Maillet

Andrée Maillet (June 7, 1921 – December 3, 1995), was a Québécois writer.

Biography The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, from 1943 to 1952, was a correspondent in the United States and Europe. From 1952 to 1960, she was director of the magazine Amérique française. She wrote for Photo-Journal and was a columnist for Le Petit Journal which was owned by her father. Maillet founded the French-Canadian chapter of the PEN club.

Maillet married Loyd Hamlyn Hobden.

Selected works Les Montréalais, stories (1963) Le chêne des tempêtes (1965), received the first prize for literature from the Province of Québec, youth section, and the medal of the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians Le Chant de l'Iroquoise, poetry (1967) Profil de l'orignal, novel (1952) Les Remparts de Québec, novel (1964) À la mémoire d'un héros, novel (1975) Lettres au surhomme (two volumes) novel (1976-1977)