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Lise Tremblay (born 13 June 1957) is a French Canadian novelist.

Lise Tremblay
Born	(1957-06-13) 13 June 1957 (age 65) Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Notable awards	Governor General's Award (1999)

Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her first awards were presented at the Saguenay-Lac. St Jean book festival for her 1990 debut novel L'hiver de pluie. Her 1999 novel, La danse juive won that year's Governor General's Award for fiction.[1]

In recent years, she has been teaching literature in Montreal at Cégep du Vieux Montréal.

Awards and recognition

• 1999: fiction winner, Governor General's Award, La danse juive
• 2003: Grand prix du livre de Montréal (in French), La héronnière
• 2004: Prix des libraires du Québec (in French), La héronnière
• 2004: Prix Jean-Hamelin (in French), La héronnière

Bibliography

• L'hiver de pluie. Montreal: XYZ, 1990. ISBN 2-89261-031-1
• La pêche blanche. Montreal: Leméac, 1994. ISBN 2-7609-3167-6
• La danse juive. Montreal: Leméac, 1999. ISBN 2-7609-3217-6 (Mile End, trans. Gail Scott, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2002. ISBN 0-88922-467-6)[2]
• La héronnière Montreal: Leméac, 2003. ISBN 2-7609-3254-0 (The Hunting Ground, trans. Linda Gaboriau, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2006. ISBN 0-88922-534-6)
• La soeur de Judith. Montreal: Boréal, 2007. ISBN 978-2-7646-0539-4
• L'Habitude des bêtes, Montréal, Éditions du Boréal, 2017, ISBN 9782764625156

Further reading

• Robert Dion: L’émergence des formes de la «vie de banlieue» en région dans "La Sœur de Judith" de Lise Tremblay, in "Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien" ZKS, 68, Wißner, Augsburg 2018, ISSN 0944-7008 pp 90 – 103 en ligne

References

External links

• (in French) UNEQ/l'ILE: Lise Tremblay, accessed 22 July 2006
• Library and Archives Canada: 1999 Governor General's Award, accessed 22 July 2006

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