Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989. References External links Critical bibliography database (Auteurs.contemporain.info) 1957 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Writers from Quebec Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Université de Sherbrooke alumni Canadian poets in French 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian novelists in French