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Martine L. Jacquot

Martine Jacquot holds a BA (La Sorbonne, Paris), 3 MA degrees (La Sorbonne, Acadia, Dalhousie), a BJ from the University of Kings College and a PHD from Dalhousie University. She has studied and lived in France, England, Switzerland and Canada.

Past Vice President of the Association des écrivains acadiens, past president of the Conseil Culturel Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse, she has been on many editorial committees, member of several juries, has received creation grants and travel grants both from the Canada Council for the arts and the NS Arts Council. She has been invited to many literary events across Canada and abroad, namely to Lafayette's book festival during the 2nd World Acadian Congress in 1999, to Tunisia to attend a panel of women writers in 2000, the International Poetry Festival in Trois Riviers, the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival and to the Paris Book Fair in 2004 and 2006, and a three week of reading and lecturing in Russia, among others. She did a reading tour in Russia and Cameroun in 2008 and in Morocco in 2009. She was thrice finalist for the Éloizes awards, once as a writer, and twice as a cultural journalist. She was shortlisted for the France-Acadie Award three times for Au Gré du Vent (2006), Le jardin d'herbes aromatiques (2006) and Le silence de la neige (2008). She won the Award Prix Européen de l'ADELF with a special mention 2007 for Au gré du vent. She has also been chosen on 2 occasions to advise beginning authors, once by the Talent Trust of NS, once by the Association des auteurs de l'Ontario. Some of her poems and short stories have been broadcast on SRC. One of her stories was staged in Ottawa at the Théâtre Trillium. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the NS Museum and an author in residence with the ArtsInfusion program.

Martine writes poetry, novels, short stories, essays, and articles, in both English and French. Her articles and interviews have appeared in LittéRéalité, Ancrage, Arcade, Alpha arts magazine, Eloizes, Femmes d'Action, The Fiddlehead, Liason, Studies in Canadian Literature, Vent'd'est, and Waves. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Concerto pour huit voix, La Diversité: 15 nouvelles francophones à travers le monde, Ecphore Anthology 1987, Eloizes, Les Elytres du Hanneton, Herspectives, Liaison, Lieux d'être, Littéréalité, Les Maritimes, Mensuel, 25 Offerta Speziale, Poetry Halifax-Dartmouth, The Pottersfield Portfolio, Reflets Maritimes 2, Voices and Echoes: Stories and Poems of Women's Spirituality, Walk through Paradise, La Poésie acadienne and Pour l'Amour de toi, among others. Her work is being translated into Russian, Portugeuse, Italian and Arabic.

Her personal webpage can be found at http://ace.acadiau.ca/~mjacquot/.

Selected List of Publications

Duras ou le regard absolu, Toulon (France): Les Presses du Midi 2009, ISBN 978-2-8127-0053-8

La bande à Nanouk, Toulon (France): Les Presses du Midi 2009, ISBN
978-2-8127-0035-4

Miracle dans le pré, Toulon (France): Les Presses du Midi 2008, ISBN
978-2-8127-0001-9

Le silence de la neige, Humanitas, 2007. ISBN 978-2-89396-284-9.

Cet autre espace. Wolfville: Éditions du Grand Pré, 2007.

Le Jardin d'herbes Aromatiques. Montreal: Humanitas, 2005. ISBN 2-89396-266-1.

Au Gré du Vent. Wolfville: Éditions du Grand Pré, 2005. ISBN ISBN 0-921915-28-4.

Masques. Montreal: Humanitas, 2003. ISBN ISBN 2-89396-247-5.
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Le secret de l'île. Montréal: Chenelière, 2002. ISBN 2894616325.

Points de repère sur palimpseste usé. Quebec City: Le Loup de Goutière, 2002. IBSN 9782895290711.

Étapes. Montréal: Humanitas, 2001. ISBN 2893962203.

Des oiseaux dans la tete. Montréal: Humanitas, 1999. ISBN 2893961797.
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Les Glycines. Ottawa: Éditions du Vermillon, 1996. ISBN 1-895873-33-9.

Sables mouvants. Wolfville: Éditions du Grand Pré, 1994. ISBN: 0-921915-34-9.

Les Nuits démasquées. Wolfville: Éditions du Grand-Pré et Quatre-Saisons, 1991. ISBN 0-921915-12-8.

Fleurs de Pain. Ottawa: Éditions du Vermillon, 1991. ISBN 0-919925-51-0.

Route 138. Wolfville: Éditions du Grand-Pre/Edmunston: Éditions Quatre-Saisons, 1991. ISBN 0-921915-16-0 and ISBN 0-921302-12-6

Michel Goeldlin, des sentiers de la realitie aux cheminements de la creation. Wolville: Éditions du Grand-Pre, 1990. ISBN 0-921915-02-0

Les Terres douces. Edmunston: Éditions Quartre-Saisons, 1988. ISBN 0921302045.

Castor et Pollux. Wolfville: Moonchild Press, 1983.

Awards

• Finalist, Prix France-Acadie 2008, Le silence de la neige
• Finalist, SRC award 2008 (La couleur du désir)
• Finalist, prix Éloize as best cultural journalist 2007
• Prix Européen de l’ADELF 2007 (Au gré du vent)
• Finalist, prix France-Acadie 2006 (Au gré du vent)
• Finalist, prix France-Acadie 2006 (Le Jardin d’herbes aromatiques)
• Prix de la nouvelle, story staged in Ottawa (théâtre Trillium) 2001
• Finalist, FCCF recognition award 2001
• Finalist, prix Éloizes 2000 as best cultural journalist
• Finalist, prix Éloizes 1999 as best writer 1999
• Honorable mention, prix Grand-Pré, 1995
• Honorable mention, prix Dr. René J. Fournier, 1992
• Short story Liaison award, 1992
• Prix de la Présidente, Société Culturelle du Haut Saint-Jean, 1990, Les nuits démasquées
• Short story Liaison award, 1989
• Finalist, international short-story contest, Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, Paris, 1988
• Honorable mention, Writers' Federation of NS award, 1986



Translations

Dans les bois (French version of In the woods by Pamela Hickman) 64p, Éditions du Carré Saint-Louis, Montréal, 1998. ISBN 978-0887804540.

L'homme qui avait volé les couleurs de la vie, (French version of The man who stole the colours of life by W. Fraser Sandercombe), 58p, Éditions du Grand Pré, Wolfville, 1991. ISBN 0-921915-16-0

Collaborations

Vingt-cinq ans, Humanitas, Montréal, 2008

La poésie prend le métro, voyage et poésie, Adage-Danielle Sheldon éditrice, Montréal, 2008. ISBN 2-921956-20-9.

Le Tunnel, Le Vermillon, Ottawa, 2007. ISBN 9-781897-058558

La vie entre plume et déclic, Éditions de l'Ormaie (France), 2004. ISBN 2-913036-31-7.

Évelyne Volding, sourcière de mots, Éditions David, 2004. ISBN 9-782895-970262

La Cendre des mots, L'Harmattan (Paris), 2003. ISBN 978-2747553582.

Franç'art, éditions Beauchemin, Montréal, 2002

Omphalos, Inéditions, Bonaventure, Qc, 2000

Les Écrits du Millénaire, Éditions du Grand-Pré, 2000

La poésie acadienne, Éditions Perce-Neige/Écrits des Forges, Moncton/Trois-Rivières, 1999. ISBN 2-89046-509-8.

Voices and echoes: Canadian Women's Spirituality, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1997. ISBN 978-0889202863.

Walk through Paradise, National Library of Poetry, Maryland, 1995. ISBN 1561672858.

Diversité: la nouvelle francophone à travers le monde, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, USA, 1995. ISBN 0395698669.

Reflets Maritimes 2, Éd d'Acadie, 1993.

Concerto pour huit voix, nouvelle, Éditions d'Acadie, Moncton, 1989. ISBN 9782760001589.

Les Maritimes, trois provinces à découvrir, Éditions d'Acadie, Moncton, 1987. ISBN 2-7600-0148-2.

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