Linda Amyot
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Linda Amyot | |
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| Born | June 28, 1958 Joliette, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Université du Québec à Montréal |
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Linda Amyot (born June 28, 1958) is a Canadian writer living in the Lanaudière region of Quebec.[1]
Biography
[edit]Linda Amyot was born in Joliette and earned a master's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. During the 1980s and 1990s, she published short stories in various Quebec literary magazines such as XYZ, Mœbius, Contre Ciel and Arcade. She works as an editor and a writer of television documentaries and business audiovisual presentations. She also contributes to the literary magazine Nuit blanche.
Amyot helped create the À voix haute organization, which presents live performances by professional comedians of complete works or excerpts of works by Quebec authors. In 2011, she received the Prix à la création artistique awarded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.[1]
Selected works
[edit]- Ha Long, novel (2004), finalist for the Prix Anne-Hébert and for the Prix Jacqueline-Déry-Mochon
- Quand le cadre ne cadre plus (2006), a TV movie[2]
- La fille d'en face (2010), won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and the Prix Jeunesse des libraires du Québec
- Le jardin d'Amsterdam (2013), received the Prix du livre jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal and the Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature[1]
- Saint-Élie-de-Légendes (2015), a TV miniseries[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Amyot, Linda" (in French). L'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ^ a b "Linda Amyot | Writer". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- Governor General's Award–winning children's writers
- Canadian novelists in French
- Writers from Montreal
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women children's writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian children's writers in French