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{{short description|Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{infobox writer
| name = France Daigle
| image = France-daigle.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|18}}
| birth_place = [[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]], Canada
| occupation = Novelist, playwright, poet, columnist
| genre = novels, plays, poetry, weekly column in [[L'Acadie Nouvelle]]
| spouse = Berthe Theriault
}}
'''France Daigle''' (born 18 November 1953) is a Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity. Born and raised in [[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]], she has published nine novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the [[Chiac]] in her written dialogue.<ref>[http://films.nfb.ca/celebrating-chiac/medias/pdf/Celebrating_Chiac_onesheet.pdf Onesheet Celebrating Chiac] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190559/http://films.nfb.ca/celebrating-chiac/medias/pdf/Celebrating_Chiac_onesheet.pdf |date=2011-07-06 }}</ref> She uses standard French in her narration.
She was awarded the 1999 [[France-Acadie award]] for her novel ''Pas Pire''<ref>
Daigle was awarded the 2011 [[Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts]] for French Language Literary Arts.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://artsnb.ca/site/en/awards/awards-archive/2011-lga-winners/| title= 2011 LGA Winners| publisher= artsnb| accessdate= 4 May 2019| archive-date= 30 January 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150130232110/http://artsnb.ca/site/en/awards/awards-archive/2011-lga-winners/| url-status= dead}}</ref> The following year she won the [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Literary Prize]] in French fiction for her novel ''Pour sûr'', the result of ten years of work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Moncton Acadian author thrilled by top literary prize |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-acadian-author-thrilled-by-top-literary-prize-1.1238992 |website=CBC New Brunswick |accessdate=28 August 2020 |date=15 November 2012}}</ref>
''Pour sûr'' was selected for the 2019 edition of ''[[Le Combat des livres]]'', where it was defended by musician [[Édith Butler]].<ref name=combat>[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1162425/combat-livres-2019-cinq-combattants-national-canada "5 combattants dans le ring du Combat national des livres"]. [[Ici Radio-Canada]], April 8, 2019.</ref>
== Publications ==
* ''Sans jamais parler du vent'', (1983)
* ''Film
* ''Histoire de la maison qui brûle'', (1985)
* ''La Vraie Vie'', (1993)
** ''Real Life''
* ''1953: La Chronique
** ''1953: Chronicle Of A Birth Foretold''
* ''Pas pire'' (1998)
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* ''Pour Sûr'' (2011), winner of the [[Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit]] for French fiction, 2012
** ''For Sure'' (tr Robert Majzels, 2013)
* ''Poèmes pour les vieux couples'' (2016)
== Theatrical works ==
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{in lang|fr}} [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3696023&lang=eng Fonds France Daigle (R12025)] at [[Library and Archives Canada]]
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[[Category:Canadian women novelists]]
[[Category:Journalists from New Brunswick]]
[[Category:Writers from
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1953 births]]
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