Christiane Frenette
{{Short description|Canadian educator and writer}}
Christiane Frenette (born November 18, 1954) is a Quebec educator and writer.
The daughter of Pierrette Duchesne and Claude Frenette, she was born in Quebec City and received a master's degree in Quebec literature from the Université Laval. Frenette taught literature at the Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon.{{cite web |url=http://www.litterature.org/recherche/ecrivains/frenette-christiane-614/ |title=Frenette, Christiane |publisher=Infocentre littéraire des écrivains |language=fr}}
Her collection of poetry Indigo nuit received the Prix Octave-Crémazie in 1986. She was awarded the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction for La Terre ferme in 1998; that novel was translated into English as Terra Firma by Sheila Fischman in 1999.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&pg=PA399 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |page=399 |editor=New, William H |year=2002 |isbn=0-8020-0761-9 |title=Frenette, Christiane}}
Selected works
- Cérémonie mémoire, poetry (1988), finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry{{cite web |url=http://www.cormorantbooks.com/frenette-christiane/ |title=Frenette, Christiane |publisher=Cormorant Books }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Le ciel s'arrête quelque part, poetry (1991)
- Après la nuit rouge (2006), finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award;{{cite web |url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/canada-council-arts-announces-finalists-2005-governor-generals-literary-awards-562770.htm |title=The Canada Council for the Arts Announces Finalists for the 2005 Governor General's Literary Awards |date=October 17, 2005 |publisher=Marketwired}} translated into English by Sheila Fischman as After the Red Night and was nominated for a ReLit Award{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/afterword/shortlist-announced-for-relit-awards |title=Shortlists announced for ReLit Awards |newspaper=National Post |date=August 31, 2010}}
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Category:Writers from Quebec City
Category:Université Laval alumni
Category:Governor General's Award–winning fiction writers
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