Michèle Laframboise

Salon du livre de Montréal, novembre 2022.
Salon du livre de Montréal, novembre 2022.

Michèle Laframboise (born July 14, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer and comics artist.[1]

Early life and education

The daughter of Québécois parents, she was born in London. Laframboise studied geography at the Université de Montréal and civil engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. She is also a self-taught illustrator.[1]

Writing career

Her first novel, Les nuages de Phoenix, was awarded the Prix Cécile-Gagnon. She received Prix Aurora Awards in 2005 for Best novel in French ( Les Mémoires de l'Arc) and Best story in French ("Ceux qui ne comptent pas").

She received another Aurora award in 2009 (La Quête de Chaaas); she was a finalist for another Aurora award in 2010. She received the Prix Solaris in 2010 and was a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2009.[1]

Laframboise's novelette "In the Gardener’s Service" was a finalist for the 2026 Aurora Award.[2]

Personal life

She currently lives near Toronto.[3]

Published works

Novels

Source:[1][3]

  • Les voyages du Jules-Verne series: Piège pour le Jules-Verne (2002) Le stratège de Léda (2003) Les mémoires de l'Arc (2004) Le Dragon de l'Alliance (2005) Montréal, Mediaspaul
  • La quête de Chaaas series: La quête de Chaaas (2007), Les vents de Tammerlan (2008), L'axe de Koudriss (2010), La spirale de Lar Jubal, (2011), Le labyrinthe de Luurdu (2012) Montréal, Mediaspaul
  • Mica, fille de Transyl, Gatineau, Vents d'Ouest (2012)
  • Le projet Ithuriel, Ottawa, David, 2012
  • La reine Margot, Gatineau, Vents d'Ouest, 2014
  • L'écologie d'Odi, Montréal, Porte-Bonheur, Collection Clowns vengeurs, 2015
  • Le Gant, Gatineau, Vents d'Ouest, 2016
  • La ruche, Sherbrooke, Les Six Brumes, 2017
  • Le secret de Paloma (2021), David, Ottawa, 330 p.
  • Rose du désert (2023) David, Ottawa, 352 p.

Graphic Novels

Sources:[4][5]

  • La plume japonaise, Vermillon, Ottawa, 2010, 56 p.

Selected short-stories

  • "In the Gardner's Service" (2025) Asimov's, July-August
  • "Kuiper Pancake" (2023) Analog, May–June issue
  • "Tears Down the Wall" (2023) Asimov’s, Vol. 47, Sept.-Oct. issue
  • "Living on the Trap" (2023) Analog, Nov-Dec. 2023
  • "I’ll Be Moon for Christmas", Asimov’s Vol. 46, #11-12
  • "Screaming Fire" (2022) in Asimov’s[6] Vol. 46, 7-8
  • "Rare Earths Pineapple" (2022) in Analog[7] July–August
  • "October's Feast" (2022) in Asimov’s[8] Vol. 46, 1-2
  • "Shooting at Warner’s Bay" (2021) Asimov’s[9] Vol. 45, 9-10
  • "Cousin Entropy" (2020) in Future SF Digest[10] 7
  • "Ganymede's Lamps" (2020) in Luna Station Quarterly[11] 42
  • "Ice Monarch" (2018) in Abyss&Apex[12] no67
  • "Domus Justice" (2018) in Fiction River[13] no27
  • "Thinking Inside the Box" (2017) in Compelling Science Fiction[14] no7
  • "Slime and Crime" (2017) in Fiction River[15] no22
  • "Closing the Big Bang" (2017) in Fiction River[16] no21
  • "La cousine Entropie" (2016) in Galaxies[17] 40
  • "Sous réserve" (2016) dans Brins d'éternité[18] 43
  • "Penser à l'intérieur de la boîte" (2015) dans Géante Rouge[19] 23
  • "Monarque des glaces" (2010) Solaris[20] 175 - Solaris Prize Winner 2010 (reprinted in 2012 in Galaxies 18)
  • "Le Vol de l'abeille" (2006), Solaris [21] 159 – Solaris Prize Winner 2006
  • "Women are from Mars, Men are from Venus" (2006), Tesseract 10,[22] Edge publ.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Laframboise, Michèle". Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.(in French)
  2. ↑ "2026 Aurora Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
  3. 1 2 "Laframboise , Michèle". L'Association des auteures et des auteurs de l'Ontario français.(in French)
  4. ↑ "Recherche - L'Île". www.litterature.org.
  5. ↑ "Répertoire des membres | L'Association des auteures et des auteurs de l'Ontario français". aaof.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03.
  6. ↑ "Asimov's Vol. 46, 7-8".
  7. ↑ "Analog Science Fiction & Fact, July-August 2022".
  8. ↑ "Asimov's Vol. 46, 1-2".
  9. ↑ "Vol. 45, 9-10".
  10. ↑ "Issue 7".
  11. ↑ "Issue 042". May 24, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Ice Monarch | Abyss & Apex". 15 June 2018.
  13. ↑ "Latest Volume – Fiction River".
  14. ↑ "Compelling Science Fiction Home". compellingsciencefiction.com.
  15. ↑ "Fiction River: No Humans Allowed". 28 April 2017.
  16. ↑ "Fiction River: Tavern Tales". 30 January 2017.
  17. ↑ "|| getexpi ||".
  18. ↑ "#43 (Hiver 2016)".
  19. ↑ "Penser à l'intérieur de la boîte - Editions de l'ouvrage - nooSFere".
  20. ↑ "Solaris 175 (Été 2010) | Revue Solaris".
  21. ↑ "Solaris 159 (Été 2006) | Revue Solaris".
  22. ↑ "EDGE Online catalog - Tesseracts Ten (A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction) edited by Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom".
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