Martine L. Jacquot (; born 1955) is a French-born novelist, poet, short story writer and journalist, living in Canada since 1982. She has a doctorate in French literature.

Early life and education Martine Lydie Jacquot was born in La Ferté-Gaucher, France, May 27, 1955, and spent her first five years in Saint-Mars-en-Brie, France.

She obtained her baccalaureate from the Lycée de Coulommiers in 1974. She then entered the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 in Paris, where she earned a BA in English in 1977 and an MA in British literature in 1979. She taught for a year in Canterbury, England at the Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School, and then studied at the University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (preparation for the Capes and Agrégation of English). She worked for a few months at the Danish Consulate General in Marseille, France, then at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, as a bilingual secretary.

She moved to Nova Scotia, Canada, in September 1981, and obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax in 1984, a master's degree in Canadian literature from Acadia University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in French literature from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 1995 with a thesis entitled, .Interview conducted at the 2019 Yes 98.5 FM Radiothon in Halifax on June 22, 2019. radio archives.

Career

She teaches at various universities (Dalhousie, Acadia, St. Mary's, St. Anne's) as well as being a journalist (Ven'd'est, Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse, among others), and translator.

She was President of the Conseil Culturel Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CCANÉ) for three years and created the magazine ARTcadie. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the Nova Scotia Museum for 12 years. She is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Les Cahiers canadiens based at the Volgograd State University in Russia and a long-time contributor to Arabic-language publications such as Ashtarowt and Al Quds.

A prolific, internationally published, polygraphic author, she is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and children's author. Her work is part of the . She is one of the few Acadian authors of short stories. These are collected in Sables mouvants (1994), Des Oiseaux dans la tête (1998), and Les enjoliveurs du temps (2023). Most of her work is contemporary, but she has moved into historical fiction with Au gré du vent (2005), set in Halifax and southwestern Nova Scotia during the second half of the 19th century, for which she has written a sequel, Déferlement sur le siècle nouveau (2023). Her Nanouk series, centered around a husky, is particularly popular with young readers. Her novels often centre around a protagonist (sometimes also a narrator) who makes a journey or displacement that causes her to reconsider her family or social situation.

She is a member of the Parlement des Écrivaines Francophones and has published internationally.

Awards and honours 1987, Short story prize, Revue Liaison, for Des Yeux d'IrlandeRevue liaison, « Yeux d'Irlande », Liaison, No. 43, 1987, p. 28 1990, President's Award, literary contest of the Société Culturelle du Haut Saint-Jean, Edmundston, New Brunswick, for Les Nuits Démasquées 1992, Short story award, Revue Liaison, with JazzRevue liaison, « Jazz », Liaison No. 65, January 1992, pp. 26-27 1994, Winner, "L'Acadie à découvrir" contest, SRC radio 1997, Winner, Concours de vieux mots acadiens, SRC radio 2000, Winner, Ontario Writers' Association Short Story Award (performed on stage at the , Ottawa)« Biographie & Cet autre espace : extrait », LittéRéalité Vol.13 No.1, 1 May 2005, pp. 70-71 2004, Acadia Student Union Teaching Recognition Award 2007, Prix Europe de l'ADELF () for Au gré du vent6 2022, Prix d'Excellence, French & Friends Multilingual Book Festival, Washington, D.C., with Filigrane and La couleur du désir 2023, Shortlisted, Prix Quinquennal du Prix Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.

Selected works

Les terres douces : roman, 1988 Route 138, 1989 Fleurs de pain : poésie, 1991 Les nuits démasquées, 1991 Espaces du réel, cheminements de création : Michel Goeldlin, 1995 Les glycines : roman 1996 Des oiseaux dans la tête : nouvelles, 1998 Etapes : poèmes choisis (1982-1995), 2001 Points de repère sur palimpseste usé : poésie, 2002 Masques : roman, 2003 Le secret de l'île, 2003 Au gré du vent ... : roman, 2005 Le silence de la neige : poésie, 2007 Duras, ou, Le regard absolu, 2009 La bande à Nanouk : roman jeunesse, 2009 Les oiseaux de nuit finissent aussi par s'endormir : roman , 2014

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