Roxane Turcotte

Roxane Turcotte (born 1952) is a Canadian author of children's and youth literature. Born in Montreal, she lives in the Laurentians. Turcotte has written about forty books within the milieu of Quebec literature. She is the recipient of the 2017 Gaston Miron Excellence in French Award.

Biography Roxane Turcotte is a graduate of the Université de Montréal in art history and education sciences. She is a French teacher and pedagogical advisor at the Commission scolaire de Montréal. Turcotte was nominated in 2006 for the Bravo award, for having included youth literature when teaching adult literacy learners and non-native-French-speakers, as well as for having participated in the first pajama story-telling sessions for infants in Montreal schools.

She creates and sporadically leads interactive literary workshops as part of the Quebec and Canada book fairs, of the Centre national du livre de France and the program of the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. She participates in the national tours of , , and .

In 2006, she published her first youth novel, Le vol de la corneille, with Loup de Gouttière editions. She has subsequently published more than thirty children's books.

Awards and honours Prix Tamarac 2018 and Peuplier 2020 from the in Toronto for her, Éloi et le cheval de joie and Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre. Francophonie selection of the 2019 Saint-Exupéry Prize for Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre 2017 Gaston Miron Excellence in French Award

Selected works

Emma et le tableau volé, 2021 Énigme au Jardin botanique,, 2021 Mystères au château Frontenac, , 2020 Le manoir aux secrets,, 2020 Des voix d’épouvante,, 2020 Sol ! Sol ! Sol !, 2020 Adam, les fleurs et le voleur, 2019 Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre, 2019 Emma et la fête masquée,, 2019 Le secret de Ratapatapan !, 2018 Le lapin au grand cœur et Lulu Lustucru, 2018 Plic, ploc !, 2018 Raoul de Poupoupidou,, 2018 Saperlifourchette !, 2017 Éloi et, le cheval de joie, 2017 L’arc-en-ciel de la rivière, 2017 Antoine Labelle, curé et Roi du Nord, 2016 Le piège de l’inconnue, 2016 Miam, miam ! , 2016 Le lapin au grand cœur, 2016 Ça suffit, monsieur l’Ogre, 2015 La perle des neiges, 2014 La chasse au voleur, 2012 Zébulon, le zèbre caméléon, 2012 Marion et la vie qui bat, 2012 Pic et le grand pin blanc, 2011 Crac ! Qui va là ?, 2011 Max, débusqueur de secrets, 2011 Girafe givrée, 2010 Chevalier Poids-Plume, 2010 Zoé et la sorcière, 2009 Le Vol de la corneille, 2006