Francine Ouellette
Francine Ouellette is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Quebec.
She was born in Montreal and was educated at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Ouellette taught plastic arts at the École Polyvalente Mont-Laurier. In the 1970s, she left teaching and moved to Schefferville to pursue flying and writing. She wrote Les ailes du destin which was only published some 20 years later. She later moved back to the Mont-Laurier region. In 1984, she published which became a best-seller and later the basis for a television series; in 1993, it was also awarded the and the for novel of the year. In 2013, she received the Ludger-Duvernay Prize for her collected work.Selected works
- Le Sorcier, novel, received the
- Sir Gaby du lac, novel, received the Prix Citoyenne de la nature
- Le Grand Blanc, novel, received the
- Bécassine, l’oiseau invisible, youth literature
- Feu, La rivière profanée, novel, received the Grand prix de la Culture des Laurentides
- Feu, Fleur de lys, novel, received the Prix ANEL-AQPF
