Francine D'Amour
Francine D'Amour (born November 6, 1946) is a Quebec educator and writer.[1]
The daughter of Jean D'Amour and Marthe Pinard, she was born in
She published her first novel Les Dimanches sont mortels in 1987; it received the Grand Prix littéraire Guérin and the Prix de l'Académie des lettres du Québec. Her second novel Les Jardins de l'enfer was a finalist for the prize awarded by the readers of Elle (France). D'Amour has contributed to several literary journals such as Arcade, Les écrits, Le Sabord and Moebius.[1]
D'Amour has been invited to various literary festivals, book fairs and literary conferences in Canada, the United States, France and Morocco.[1]
Selected works
Source:[1]
- Écrire comme un chat, stories (1994)
- Presque rien, novel (1996), received the Prix Québec-Paris
- Le retour d'Afrique, novel (2004), finalist for the Prix littéraire des collégiens, the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix du roman d'amour du Prince-Maurice; translated into English by Wayne Grady as Return from Africa (2005)
References
- ^ a b c d "D'Amour, Francine" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
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