France Daigle

France Daigle (born 1953) is a Canadian author. Born and based in Moncton, New Brunswick, she has published six novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue.^[1]

She was awarded the 1999 France-Acadie award for her novel Pas Pire^[2] and the 2002 Éloize award for Un fin passage. She has written three plays with the avant garde theatre company Moncton Sable.^[3] She was formerly writer in residence at the University of Ottawa.

In 2012 she won the Governor General's Literary Prize in French fiction for her book "Pour sûr" that took 10 years to write.^[4]

Publications

• Film d’amour et de dépendance, (1984)
• Histoire de la maison qui brûle, (1985)
• La Vraie Vie, (1993)
  • Real Life
• 1953. La Chronique d’une naissance annoncée, (1995)
  • 1953: Chronicle Of A Birth Foretold
• Pas pire (1998)
  • Just Fine (tr Robert Majzels, 1999, Anasi Press, winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, 2000)
• Un fin passage (2001)
  • A Fine Passage (tr Robert Majzels, 2001) (shortlisted for The ReLit Awards, 2003)
• Petites difficultés d'existence (2002)
  • Life's Little Difficulties

Theatrical works

• Moncton sable (1997) Moncton Sable Theatre
• Craie (1999) Moncton Sable Theatre
• Foin (2000) presented by Moncton Sable Theatre

References

1. ↑ Onesheet Celebrating Chiac
2. ↑ Récipiendaires du prix France-Acadie
3. ↑ "Moncton Sable", Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
4. ↑ CBC