Nicole V. Champeau
Pointe Maligne : l'infiniment oubliée
Non-fiction French-Language
Photo : Thomas Champeau
Nicole V. Champeau, Ottawa,
Pointe Maligne : l'infiniment oubliée.
(Les Éditions du Vermillon;
distributed by Prologue)
(ISBN 978-1-897058-74-9)
Biography
Nicole V. Champeau left Cornwall, Ontario in the late 1960s to study literature and music at the University of Ottawa. Her passion for the history of places led her to collaborate on a TV series on the Historia channel, called L'Odyssée d'un fleuve. She was also the subject of several television reports, particularly on the St. Lawrence Seaway, broadcast on TV Ontario and Radio-Canada's RDI news network. During her career, this speaker, poet and essayist has also worked as a teacher, learning advisor and researcher. Among her published works are six poetry collections, including Dans les pas de la louve (awarded the 2001 Prix du livre d'Ottawa), and the non-fiction work, Mémoire des villages engloutis. Nicole V. Champeau lives in Ottawa.
Jury's comment
Like a requiem, this book sings of the destruction of the territories of the Upper Saint Lawrence, drowned by dams and depopulated by expropriation. These places have even disappeared from the memories of maps. Around Cornwall, originally called Pointe Maligne, the memory of the founding peoples, Amerindian and French, has been obliterated.