Nationality Canadian Name France Daigle | Role Author | |
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Born 18 November 1953 ( 1953-11-18 ) Occupation Novelist, playwright, columnist Books A Fine Passage, Life's Little Difficulties, For Sure, 1953: Chronicle of a Birth, Real Life: A Novel |
Humanities Guest Lecturer - France Daigle
Entretien avec France Daigle
France Daigle (born 18 November 1953) is a Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity. Born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, she has published nine novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue. She uses standard French in her narration.
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- Humanities Guest Lecturer France Daigle
- Entretien avec France Daigle
- Publications
- Theatrical works
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She was awarded the 1999 France-Acadie award for her novel Pas Pire and the 2002 Éloize award for Un fin passage. She has written three plays with the avant garde theatre company Moncton Sable. She was formerly writer in residence at the University of Ottawa.

In 2012 she won the Governor General's Literary Prize in French fiction for her novel "Pour sûr", the result of ten years of work. That same year she won the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts for French Language Literary Arts.

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