France Daigle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

France Daigle

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1953

Place of Birth: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Profession: writer, playwright, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

France Daigle (born 18 November 1953) is a Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity.
Born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, she has published nine novels and three plays.
She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue.
She uses standard French in her narration. She was awarded the 1999 France-Acadie award for her novel Pas Pire and the 2002 Éloize award for Un fin passage.
She has written three plays with the avant garde theatre company Moncton Sable.
She was formerly writer in residence at the University of Ottawa. Daigle was awarded the 2011 Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts for French Language Literary Arts.
The following year she won the Governor General's Literary Prize in French fiction for her novel Pour sûr, the result of ten years of work.Pour sûr was selected for the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it will be defended by musician Édith Butler.