Françoise Enguehard

Who is Françoise Enguehard?

Françoise Enguehard is a French-language author and journalist born in 1957 in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, whose writing and public life have been shaped by the archipelago's Breton, Norman, Acadian, and Irish roots and by the surrounding ocean. She became the first French-language journalist for Radio-Canada Atlantique in Newfoundland in 1992, before leaving the broadcaster in 2001 to found her own communications company, Vivat. Her debut novel, Les litanies de l'Île-aux-Chiens, was published in 1999, reissued in 2001, and released in France as L'Île-aux-Chiens, where it won the Henri Quéffelec Prize at the maritime book fair in Concarneau, Brittany, in 2001. She later won the Radio-Canada Readers' Prize and the Prix Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie for her 2009 novel L'archipel du docteur Thomas, and also published two novels for younger readers. Enguehard served as president of the Société Nationale de l'Acadie from 2006 to 2012 and later led the National Acadian Foundation, and in 2015 she was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour for her decades-long commitment to French and Acadian culture in North America.

Sources: La 1ère Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, "Françoise Enguehard nommée officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite" · Radio-Canada, "Françoise Enguehard" · Bibliothèque des Amériques, "10 questions à Françoise Enguehard"