Lise Vaillancourt

Lise Vaillancourt (born July 5, 1954) is a Quebec writer. She has been artist-in-residence at the Art Studio at the Banff Centre, at the Festival des francophonies en Limousin and at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. She has served as president of the Centre des auteurs dramatiques du Québec.

Selected works

Plays for young people Source: Ballade pour trois baleines (1982) Martha Jenkins (1982) Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes... (1986) Marie-Antoine, Opus 1 (1984), English translation included in Anthology of Québec Plays in English Translation Vol I (1966-1986) Amours imprévues dans la jungle équatoriale (1986) Billy Strauss (1990) Le Petit Dragon (1996), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award in 2000

Novels Source: Journal d'une obsédée (1989) L'Été des eiders (1996), finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction