Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Early life and education Ouellette-Michalska was born in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. She studied arts at the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec and the Université de Sherbrooke, where she received a PhD degree in 1987.

Career Ouellette-Michalska began writing professionally in the 1960s. One of her well-known works is the 1984 novel La Maison Trestler, a work of historical fiction. Her diary, La Tentation de dire, was published in 1985 and broadcast on CBC Radio-Canada.

As well as fiction, Ouellette-Michalska also published a number of essays, including L'Amour de la carte postale in 1987. She has contributed as a journalist to publications such as Perspectives and Le Devoir.

Ouellette-Michalska's sixth novel, L'Ete de l'ile de grace, won the 1993 France-Quebec literary prize.

Works 1968: Dôme, short story 1979 : La Femme de sable, 112 pages, (also translated into English as The Sandwoman, 112 pages, ) 1981 : Entre le souffle et l'aine, poetry, 156 pages, 1981 : L'Échappée de discours de l'œil, essay, 344 pages, 1984 : La Maison Trestler, ou Le 8e jour d'Amérique, novel. (also translated by W. Donald Wilson into English as The Trestler House, 300 pages, ) 1985 : La Tentation de dire ("The temptation of saying"), diary, 172 pages. 1987 : L'Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence ("Postcard love"), essay, 260 pages, Le Plat de lentilles ("Lentil dish"), novel, La Danse de l'amante ("Lover's dance"), theatre, 64 pages, 1989 : La fête du désir, novel, 149 pages. 1990 : La termitière, 150 pages, 1992 : Léo-Paul Tremblé, biography 1993 : L'Été de l'île de Grâce ("The summer of Grace's Island"), novel, 280 pages. 1997 : La Passagère ("The passenger"), novel, 192 pages, 1999 : Les Sept Nuits de Laura ("Laura's seven nights"), novel, 123 pages, 2000 : L'Amérique un peu ("A little bit of America"), poems 2002 : Le Cycle des migrations ("Cycle of migrations"), poems, 2006 : L'Apprentissage ("The apprenticeship"), novel, 138 pages. 2007 : Autofiction et dévoilement de soi ("Self-fiction and self-unveiling"), essay, 156 pages. 2010 : Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages, 2012 : La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages.

Prizes 1981 - Winner, Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction for L'échappée des discours de l'oeil 1984 - Finalist, Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for La Maison Trestler 1984 - Winner, Prix Molson du roman for La Maison Trestler ou le 8ème jour d'Amérique 1985 - Inducted into the Académie des lettres du Québec 1993 - Prix Jean-Hamelin, L'Été de l'île de Grâce 1993 - Prix Arthur-Buies 1998 - Gold Medal from the Renaissance française 2002 - Grand Prix littéraire de la Montérégie