Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska studied at Université de Montréal, University of Sherbrooke and Université du Québec à Montréal. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is poetry, literature and history of literature. Distinctions recorded are Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction.

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.

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.

• 1968: Dôme, short story • 1979: La Femme de sable, 112 pages, (also translated into English as The Sandwoman, 112 pages) • 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. (also translated by W. Donald Wilson into English as The Trestler House, 300 pages) • 1985: La Tentation de dire ("The temptation of saying"), diary, 172 pages. • 1987: L'Amour de la carte postale: Impérialisme culturel et différence ("Postcard love"), essay, 260 pages, Le Plat de lentilles ("Lentil dish"), novel, La Danse de l'amante ("Lover's dance"), 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 ("The summer of Grace's Island"), novel, 280 pages. • 1997: La Passagère ("The passenger"), novel, 192 pages, • 1999: Les Sept Nuits de Laura ("Laura's seven nights"), novel, 123 pages, • 2000: L'Amérique un peu ("A little bit of America"), poems • 2002: Le Cycle des migrations ("Cycle of migrations"), poems, • 2006: L'Apprentissage ("The apprenticeship"), novel, 138 pages,. • 2007: Autofiction et dévoilement de soi ("Self-fiction and self-unveiling"), essay, 156 pages. • 2010: Imaginaire sans frontières: Les lieux de l'écriture, 216 pages, • 2012: La Parlante d'outre-mer, 200 pages.

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska is recorded with the occupation short story writer. Recorded with the occupation literary historian. Recorded as writer, poet, novelist, essayist and literary historian. Career and activity. Ouellette-Michalska worked in poetry, literature, history of literature and journalism. She belonged to Académie des lettres du Québec.