Michèle Marineau

After studying in medicine, art history and translation, Michèle Marineau has been a writer and a translator for more than 35 years. As a writer, she won a Governor General Literary Award in the Young People’s Literature category twice (for Cassiopée ou l’été polonais in 1988, and La route de Chlifa in 1993) as well as other awards in Québec, France and Belgium. As a translator, she was thrice a finalist for a GG Award, and her translation of Barrie Baker’s The Village of a Hundred Smiles and other stories, Le Village aux Infinis Sourires et autres histoires, was on the IBBY Honour List in 2002. Michèle lives between Montréal and L’Isle-aux-Grues, in Québec, with her husband, writer François Gravel, and their two cats.