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Madeleine Ouellette Michalska
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Writer
Name
Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
Books
The sandwoman, The Trestler House
Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born May 27, 1930 in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Quebec) is a Canadian writer from 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. She has also contributed as a journalist to publications such as Perspectives a Le Devoir.
Works
1968: Dôme, short story
1979 : La Femme de sable, 112 pages, ISBN 978-2892950151
(also translated into English as The Sandwoman, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0920717240)
1981 : Entre le souffle et l’aine, poetry, 156 pages, ISBN 978-2890180543
1981 : L’Échappée de discours de l’œil, essay, 344 pages, ISBN 978-2892950410
1984 : La Maison Trestler, ou Le 8e jour d'Amérique, novel. ISBN 978-2890371958
(also translated by W. Donald Wilson into English as The Trestler House, 300 pages, ISBN 978-1550712773)
1985 : La Tentation de dire ("The temptation of saying"), diary, 172 pages. ISBN 978-2890372450
1987 : L’Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence ("Postcard love"), essay, 260 pages, ISBN 978-2890373327 Le Plat de lentilles ("Lentil dish"), novel, ISBN 978-2891510004 La Danse de l’amante ("Lover’s dance"), theatre, 64 pages, ISBN 978-2890240513
1989 : La fête du désir, novel, 149 pages. ISBN 978-2890374911
1990 : La termitière, 150 pages, ISBN 978-2890053441
1992 : Léo-Paul Tremblé, biography
1993 : L’Été de l’île de Grâce ("The summer of Grace’s Island"), novel, 280 pages. ISBN 978-2892951820
1997 : La Passagère ("The passenger"), novel, 192 pages, ISBN 978-2890379213
1999 : Les Sept Nuits de Laura ("Laura’s seven nights"), novel, 123 pages, ISBN 978-2890241305
2000 : L’Amérique un peu ("A little bit of America"), poems
2002 : Le Cycle des migrations ("Cycle of migrations"), poems, ISBN 978-2890184947
2006 : L’Apprentissage ("The apprenticeship"), novel, 138 pages, ISBN 978-2892614640.
2007 : Autofiction et dévoilement de soi ("Self-fiction and self-unveilling"), essay, 156 pages. ISBN 978-2892614862
2010 : Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages, ISBN 978-2892615708
2012 : La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages. ISBN 978-2892616996
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