Arlette Cousture

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Arlette Cousture
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Cousture
Born (1948-04-03) April 3, 1948 (age 75)
Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
Genre Novel
Notable works Les Filles de Caleb

Arlette Cousture, OC CQ (born April 3, 1948) is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec. [1] [2] Many of her novels have become best-sellers in the French language. [3]

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Early life

Cousture was born in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from collège Sainte-Marie. [4]

Career

As a young woman, Cousture worked at Radio-Canada television. She later worked in radio and as a journalist. She worked in communications at Hydro Quebec. [4]

In the 1980s Cousture wrote a pair of best-selling novels, Les filles de Caleb, about the life of a young teacher in rural Quebec. [5] [6] [7] The stories later became the basis of a television series [8] [9] and were translated into English. [10] [11] Cousture later wrote more stories about the novels' heroine, Emilie.

In the 1990s Cousture wrote a two-volume story, Ces Enfants d'ailleurs, about a Polish family's move to Canada during World War II. [4]

Awards and honours

In 1998, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2012, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. [12]

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  2. ↑ Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State . Duke University Press; 1999. ISBN   0-8223-2322-2. p. 56–.
  3. ↑ Quebec . Scholastic Library Publishing; October 1992. ISBN   978-0-516-06617-2. p. 93.
  4. 1 2 3 Arlette Cousture at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  5. ↑ Reingard M. Nischik. History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian . Camden House; 2008. ISBN   978-1-57113-359-5. p. 446–.
  6. ↑ W.H. New. A History of Canadian Literature . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP; 6 August 2003. ISBN   978-0-7735-7136-5. p. 344–.
  7. ↑ Adamson, Judith. "Nostalgia for a simpler Quebec" Archived 2018-02-06 at the Wayback Machine . Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Jan 09, 1993 F.14
  8. ↑ Sharing the Blessings . Médiaspaul; 1996. ISBN   978-2-89420-315-6. p. 111–.
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