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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Francine Ouellette
- Francine Ouellette (born March 11, 1947) is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Quebec. She was born in Montreal and was educated at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.
- Ouellette taught plastic arts at the École Polyvalente Mont-Laurier.
- In the 1970s, she left teaching and moved to Schefferville to pursue flying and writing.
- She wrote Les ailes du destin which was only published some 20 years later.
- She later moved back to the Mont-Laurier region.
- In 1984, she published Au nom du père et du fils which became a best-seller and later the basis for a television series; in 1993, it was also awarded the Prix du grand public and the Prix Le Signet d'or for novel of the year.
- In 2013, she received the Ludger-Duvernay Prize for her collected work.
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