Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
Literary Arts
Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska began her career as a journalist and writer at a very young age. She writes for L’actualité, Le Devoir, Châtelaine magazine, and for the public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada, among others. The author is also a professor of literature at several educational institutions: Université de Montréal, École supérieure de musique Marguerite Bourgeoys, Université de Sherbrooke (AGEUM), Institut d’éducation de Constantine (Algeria), and Albuquerque University (United States).
Mme Ouellette-Michalska studied at the Université de Montréal, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in the mid-1960s. She went on to earn a Master of Arts degree at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1978, followed by a PhD in French Studies at the Université de Sherbrooke in 1986.
Novelist, essayist and poet, she has published several bestsellers, including L’été de l’île de Grâce, La maison Testler and Jeux de hasard et de désir.
Her work has been translated into many languages and received prestigious awards, such as the Médaille d’or from La Renaissance française, the Prix Arthur-Buies, the Prix Molson de l’Académie des lettres du Québec, the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction, and the Prix France-Québec.
The author has also been a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec since 1985.
