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Jocelyne Saucier (born May 27, 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec. Career. Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec before publishing her debut novel, La Vie comme une image, in 1996.
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"I have a friend who once told me that I write as if I work in a factory. Writing takes time, and so you struggle to find the time to write. The moment I started writing novels I also started freelancing. So I was doing research contracts and copyediting at home. Then I had children, so I started to write between contracts and when my children were...
"Rhonda Mullins has also translated another one of my books, Jeanne's Road. She then translated And the Birds Rained Down and is now in the process of translating another, which is going to be called 21 Cardinals. Usually she writes a first draft, translates it from cover to cover. Then we meet — often in Montreal — and she asks me somewhere betwee...
"While writing this book I met some of the children of the survivors of the great fires. The last survivor had died maybe 10 years ago, so their children are quite old. I met a lady who was 85. Her father had survived the great fires and she now lived alone in a big house in Matheson. She told me something that stuck with me. Her father had told he...
"The character of Marie Desneiges is a real person. I have an aunt named Marie-Ange who was put away at the age of 16. She died at 87 in a residence for former psychiatric patients. About eight years ago my husband and I took a trip to New Brunswick and we decided to visit her. I didn't know this aunt very well. I had only met her once as a child. ...
The Quebec author reveals the inspiration and process behind her novel about a woman who escapes a psychiatric institution. She also shares her experience of working with a translator and meeting the relatives of the survivors of the great fires.
Jocelyne Saucier (born 1948 in Clair, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec. Educated in political science at the Université Laval, Saucier worked as a journalist in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec before publishing her debut novel, La Vie comme une image, in 1996.
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Feb 7, 2017 · Jocelyne Saucier tells the story of two octogenarians determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms in a Northern Ontario forest.
Jun 15, 2021 · Megan Durnford interviews Jocelyne Saucier - CNQ. By Ashley Van Elswyk on June 15, 2021 Interviews, Uncategorized. In Jocelyne Saucier’s fifth novel, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep (Coach House Books), an elderly woman named Gladys mysteriously vanishes after boarding a train in Northern Ontario.
Jocelyne Saucier talks about her novel, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, translated by Rhonda Mullins. Originally titled À train perdu and published by Éditio...
Jun 27, 2018 · Learn about Jocelyne Saucier, a francophone novelist from New Brunswick who has been nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards and Canada Reads. Find out more about her books, translations and interviews on CBC Books.
