Martine L. Jacquot

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 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, . ==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. Her work is part of the . 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'Irlande'' • 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 Jazz • 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) • 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 ==References==