Suzanne Martel is a French

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Martel currently resides in Montreal

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, Canada. She is married to Maurice Martel and together they have six sons and six grandchildren.

Awards

Martel's book Jeanne, Fille du Roy (translated as The King's Daughter

The King's Daughter

The King's Daughter is a historical novel for young adult readers by Suzanne Martel, first published in 1964. It follows the life of Jeanne Chatel, one of the King's Daughters of New France in the seventeenth century.-Plot:...

), is frequently read in highschool in Quebec and Ontario. She has won numerous awards, including:

• Governor-General's Literary Awards (1994, Une belle journée pour mourir)
• The Canada Council Children's Literature Prize (1982, Nos amis robots)
• Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award (1981, The King's Daughter)
• Air Canada Prize (1979 for a news story)
• Canadian Authors' Association Awards Program Vicky Metcalf Body of Work Award (1974)
• Alvine-Bélisle ASTED Prize (1974, Jeanne, Fille du Roi)
• Province of Quebec Prize (1968, Lis-moi la baleine)
• First Château Prize (1967, Fille du Roi)
• Federal Centennial Prize (1967, Un trop bon diable)
• ACELF Prize (1962, Surréal 3000; 1963, Lis-moi la baleine; 1979, Nos amis robots)
• Most Boring Book Award (Jeanne, fille du Roy)
• Oldest Living Author ('Old ones Own')

Works

Her books include (in no particular order, English titles given in parenthesis if any):

• Jeanne, Fille du Roy
  The King's Daughter
  The King's Daughter is a historical novel for young adult readers by Suzanne Martel, first published in 1964. It follows the life of Jeanne Chatel, one of the King's Daughters of New France in the seventeenth century.-Plot:...
  
  (The King's Daughter)
• Marguerite Bourgeois
• Menfou Carcajou
• Les chemins d'eau
• Une belle journee pour mourir
• La baie du Nord
• Nos Amis Robots (Robot Alert)
• Surreal 3000 {originally Quatre montrealais dans l'an 3000} (The City Underground)
• Titralak, Cadet de l'espace
• Un orchestre dans l'espace
• Pi-Oui (Peewee)
• Contes de Noel
• L'enfant de lumiere
• Lis-moi la baleine {Illustrated by her son Eric}
• Tout sur Noel {Activity book}
• Marmitons {cookbook}
• Goute a tout {cookbook}

She is also the author of a series of books called the Montcorbier series, developed with her little sister, Monique Corriveau who was also an author, when they were children. Those published are the first ones, in order:

• Les aigles d'argent Boréal. 1999.
• La musique de la lune - 1919. Boréal. 1998.
• Arnaud de Moncorbier - 1914. Boréal. 1997.
• Première armes - 1918. Fides. 1979.
• L'apprentisage d'Arahéé. Fides. 1979.
• A la découverte du Gotal (prelude). Fides. 1979

Her books have been translated into several languages including Spanish and Japanese.

Another dozen or so were self-published for the family only. Her memoirs, in five tomes, were also printed for the family and close friends.

External sources

• Suzanne Martel's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Biography at publish.uwo.ca