Joceline Sanschagrin (born September 2, 1950) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.[1]

She was born in Montreal and studied French literature at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal and the Cégep du Vieux Montréal. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal.[2] Sanschagrin has worked as a freelance journalist, researcher and columnist for Le Journal de Montréal, La Presse, Radio-Québec, Radio-Canada, Télévision Quatre Saisons and Télé-Métropole. For 7 years, she was a daily contributor to the Radio-Canada youth program 275-Allô.[1]

Sanschagrin wrote the text for several books featuring the character Caillou; Caillou, le petit pot and Caillou, la petite soeur, both published in 1993, received a Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1994. Some of her books have been translated into English, Korean, Spanish, Greek, Icelandic, Polish and Chinese.[1]

Selected works[1] edit

  • La fille aux cheveux rouges (1989), was a finalist for the Mr. Christie's Book Awards and for the Governor General's Literary Awards
  • La marque du dragon (1999), was a finalist for the Mr. Christie's Book Awards

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Sanschagrin, Joceline" (in French). L'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. ^ "Joceline Sanschagrin" (in French). Communication-Jeunesse.