Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska


Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska 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


  • 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.

  • 1985 : La Tentation de dire, diary, 172 pages.
  • 1987 : L'Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence, essay, 260 pages,
Le Plat de lentilles, novel,
La Danse de l'amante, 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, novel, 280 pages.
  • 1997 : La Passagère, novel, 192 pages,
  • 1999 : Les Sept Nuits de Laura, novel, 123 pages,
  • 2000 : L'Amérique un peu, poems
  • 2002 : Le Cycle des migrations, poems,
  • 2006 : L'Apprentissage, novel, 138 pages,.
  • 2007 : Autofiction et dévoilement de soi, essay, 156 pages.
  • 2010 : Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages,
  • 2012 : La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages.

Prizes