Roxane Turcotte (born 1952) is a Canadian author of children's and youth literature. Born in Montreal, she lives in the Laurentians. Turcotte has written about forty books within the milieu of Quebec literature. She is the recipient of the 2017 Gaston Miron Excellence in French Award.
Biography
Roxane Turcotte is a graduate of the Université de Montréal in art history and education sciences. She is a French teacher and pedagogical advisor at the Commission scolaire de Montréal. Turcotte was nominated in 2006 for the Bravo award, for having included youth literature when teaching adult literacy learners and non-native-French-speakers, as well as for having participated in the first pajama story-telling sessions for infants in Montreal schools.
She creates and sporadically leads interactive literary workshops as part of the Quebec and Canada book fairs, of the Centre national du livre de France and the program of the Ministry of Culture and Communications of Quebec. She participates in the national tours of , , and .
In 2006, she published her first youth novel, Le vol de la corneille, with Loup de Gouttière editions. She has subsequently published more than thirty children's books.
Awards and honours
Prix Tamarac 2018 and Peuplier 2020 from the in Toronto for her, Éloi et le cheval de joie and Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre. Francophonie selection of the 2019 Saint-Exupéry Prize for Bilou et la libraire du tonnerre 2017 Gaston Miron Excellence in French Award