Roxane Turcotte


Roxane Turcotte 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, Partir en livre of the Centre national du livre de France and the Écrivains à l'école program of the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. She participates in the national tours of Lire à tout vent, Lis avec moi, and Semaine du livre TD.
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 Forêt de la lecture 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, 2021Énigme au Jardin botanique,, 2021Mystères au château Frontenac,, 2020Le manoir aux secrets,, 2020Des voix d’épouvante,, 2020Sol ! Sol ! Sol !, 2020Adam, les fleurs et le voleur, 2019Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre, 2019Emma et la fête masquée,, 2019Le secret de Ratapatapan !, 2018Le lapin au grand cœur et Lulu Lustucru, 2018Plic, ploc !, 2018Raoul de Poupoupidou,, 2018 Saperlifourchette !, 2017Éloi et, le cheval de joie, 2017L’arc-en-ciel de la rivière, 2017Antoine Labelle, curé et  Roi du Nord, 2016Le piège de l’inconnue, 2016Miam, miam !, 2016Le lapin au grand cœur, 2016Ça suffit, monsieur l’Ogre, 2015La perle des neiges, 2014La chasse au voleur, 2012Zébulon, le zèbre caméléon, 2012Marion et la vie qui bat, 2012Pic et le grand pin blanc, 2011       Crac ! Qui va là ?, 2011Max, débusqueur de secrets, 2011Girafe givrée, 2010Chevalier Poids-Plume, 2010Zoé et la sorcière, 2009Le Vol de la corneille, 2006