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My YA novel wins a 2023 Trillium Book Award!

Posted on June 28, 2023 | 1 comment

I’m almost one week late with the flurry of activities, and some of you already know about it, but here it is.

On the June 20th Tuesday evening, in Toronto, I received Ontario’s most prestigious literary award, one of the four Trillium Book Awards, for my YA novel Le secret de Paloma.

Michèle, proud, holding her framed prize. (Picture by Gilles Gagnon)

Always fun when I win a literary award with a science fiction novel!

A note, the book encased seems slightly open, but the pages are actually glued together. There is a glass/plastic panel to protect the award.

Ontario Creates had replaced the Ontario Arts Council, but they still treat the finalists as well as the winners. This was my third nomination for a Trillium Award, after 2009 and 2013. I am proud of winning this time, and never hid the savor of my literary ice cream. The two other finalists had fine YA books, also, (see my French blog for details.)

To see more pics on my French blog, go there: https://savantefolle.com/2023/06/23/prix-trillium-2023/

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My SF novel finalist at the Trillium Book Award!

Posted on May 11, 2023 | Leave a comment

I learned that my SF novel is a finalist in the prestigious Trillium Book Awards, an Ontario distinction. It is a very media-covered prize, so that brought a lot of distractions. My SF novel, Le secret de Paloma (Paloma’s Secret) is finalist in the children’s books category. As the three books are aimed at teenagers/YA, the name children’s book can be a misnomer.

The Trillium Book Awards are managed by Ontario Creates / Ontario Créatif.

It is good to get this nomination, my third for this Award, especially as almost all my YA novels are Science fiction stories. Getting regularly nominated means that my story-telling is improving, as it will, I hope, as long as I keep writing and drawing. It is also a sign that science fiction is getting more acceptance as a literary endeavor.

Science fiction is exploration of different worlds and scientific possibilities that eventually will impact our lives. Like the proliferation of AI in our technologies, a manifestation that I explored in a short-story published in Solaris magazine’s last issue (in French).