Élise Turcotte

Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel ''La Maison étrangère'' and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for ''La voix de Carla'' in 1987 and for ''La terre est ici'' in 1989. Provided by Wikipedia