Caroline Merola
{{Short description|Canadian illustrator and author}}
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Caroline Merola (born 1962) is a Canadian illustrator and author living in Quebec.
Life
Merola was born in Montreal, Quebec and received a college-level diploma in plastic arts from the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and a bachelor's degree in fine art from Concordia University.
Her children's books have been translated into English, Czech and Arabic.{{cite web |url=http://www.leseditionsdelabagnole.com/caroline-merola/auteur/mero1000 |title=Caroline Merola |publisher=Les Éditions de la Bagnole |language=fr}}
She was host for the Télé-Métropole program Plexi-Mag and she contributed to the magazine Titanic.{{cite web |url=http://www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/catalogue/auteurs/caroline-merola-853.html |title=Caroline Merola |publisher=Les Éditions du Boréal |language=fr}}
In 1990, Merola received the {{ill|Prix Onésime|fr}} for Ma Meteor bleue. In 1999, her Le rêve du collectionneur received the Prix Coup de Coeur at the {{ill|Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec|fr}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.communication-jeunesse.qc.ca/repertoires/createurs/fiches.php?id=53-56-3834 |title=Caroline Merola |publisher=Communication-Jeunesse |language=fr |access-date=2017-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204091714/http://www.communication-jeunesse.qc.ca/repertoires/createurs/fiches.php?id=53-56-3834 |archive-date=2008-02-04 |url-status=dead }}
Selected works
- Cent Dangers, comic book (1986)
- La maison truquée, comic book (1994)
- Le Rêve du collectionneur, comic book (1994)
- Le roi des loups, children's book (1998)
- N'aie pas peur, Nic, children's book (2001), finalist for a Mr. Christie's Book Award
- L'Amateur, comic book (2003)
- La vache qui lit, children's book (2004)
- Une nuit en ville, children's book (2007)
- Lili et les poilus, children's book (2011), received a Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration{{cite web |url=http://slo.qc.ca/caroline-merola/ |title=Caroline Merola |work=Salon du livre de l'Outaouais |language=fr |access-date=2017-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409021229/http://slo.qc.ca/caroline-merola/ |archive-date=2017-04-09 |url-status=dead }}
- La périlleuse aventure de la petite bestiole (2019)
References
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Category:Artists from Montreal
Category:Canadian children's writers
Category:Canadian comics artists
Category:Concordia University alumni
Category:Canadian female comics artists
Category:Governor General's Award–winning children's illustrators