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Christiane Frenette (born November 18, 1954) is a Quebec educator and writer.[1]

The daughter of Pierrette Duchesne and Claude Frenette, she was born in Quebec City[2] and received a master's degree in Quebec literature from the Université Laval. Frenette taught literature at the Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon.[1]

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;[1] that novel was translated into English as Terra Firma by Sheila Fischman in 1999.[2]

Selected works

• Cérémonie mémoire, poetry (1988), finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry[3]
• Le ciel s'arrête quelque part, poetry (1991)
• Après la nuit rouge (2006), finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award;[4] translated into English by Sheila Fischman as After the Red Night[3] and was nominated for a ReLit Award[5]

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