Andrée Maillet
Andrée Maillet, was a Quebec writer.
The daughter of Corinne Dupuis and Roger Maillet, she was born in Montreal and began writing by the age of eleven. Maillet began a career in journalism and, from 1943 to 1952, was a correspondent in the United States and Europe. She was a member of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris for a number of years. From 1952 to 1960, she was director of the magazine Amérique française. She wrote for Photo-Journal and was a columnist for the Petit Journal which was owned by her father. Maillet founded the French-Canadian chapter of the PEN club. She ran as a candidate for the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale in the Westmount provincial riding in 1966, placing fourth.
Maillet married Loyd Hamlyn Hobden.
In 1990, she received the Prix Athanase-David. Maillet was named to the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1974 and was named an officer in the Order of Canada in 1978. In 1991, she was named a Grand Officer in the National Order of Quebec.
She died in Montreal at the age of 74.Selected works
- Les Montréalais, stories
- Le chêne des tempêtes, received the first prize for literature from the Province of Québec, youth section, and the medal of the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians
- Le Chant de l'Iroquoise, poetry
- Profil de l'orignal, novel
- Les Remparts de Québec, novel
- À la mémoire d'un héros, novel
- Lettres au surhomme novel
