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Louise Abbott is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships. She graduated from McGill University in 1972, and is a featured writer and photographer, with works appearing in: the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life.
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Abbott received the 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award, and in the same year the Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism. Her first book, The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, was a finalist for the 1989 QSPELL Award (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, now the Quebec Writers' Federation).
In 2014, her documentary, Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story, won the inaugural Jasper Short Film Festival Best Film by an Established Filmmaker award.