Francine D'Amour

Francine D'Amour (born November 6, 1946) is a Quebec educator and writer.

She published her first novel Les Dimanches sont mortels in 1987; it received the Grand Prix littéraire Guérin and the Prix de l'Académie des lettres du Québec. Her second novel Les Jardins de l'enfer was a finalist for the prize awarded by the readers of Elle (France). D'Amour has contributed to several literary journals such as Arcade, Les écrits, Le Sabord and Moebius.

Selected works

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Écrire comme un chat, stories (1994) Presque rien, novel (1996), received the Prix Québec-Paris Le retour d'Afrique, novel (2004), finalist for the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the and the Prix du roman d'amour du Prince-Maurice; translated into English by Wayne Grady as Return from Africa (2005)