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Place of Birth: Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada
About Anne Élaine Cliche
- Anne Élaine Cliche (born May 20, 1959) is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.She was born in Val-d'Or and was educated there.
- She went on to study music (piano) at the École de musique Vincent d'Indy in Montreal.
- She continued her studies at the University of Ottawa, receiving a bachelor's degree in music, then a bachelor's and master's degree in French literature and a doctorate in French and Quebec literature.
- She taught in the French literature department at the University of Ottawa and then was an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
- Since 1992, she has been a professor in the literary studies department at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
- Cliche has received several grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, as well as a John Charles Polanyi Prize.Her first novel La Pisseuse, published in 1993, received the Grand prix du livre de Montréal.
- Her essay Dire le livre.
- Écrivains, lecteurs, talmudistes, psychanalystes et autres curiosités was a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award.
- Her 2009 novel Mon frère Ésaü was a finalist for the Prix Ringuet.
- Jonas de mémoire, a novel published in 2014, was a finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal.
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