Louise Abbott
Louise Abbott is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships. She is a featured writer and photographer, her works appearing in: the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life,.[1]
Awards
Abbott received the 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award.,[2] and in the same year the Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism.[3] Her first book, The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, was a finalist for the QSPELL (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, now the Quebec Writers' Federation,) Award in 1989.
In 2014 her documentary, Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story, won the inaugural Jasper Short Film Festival Best Film by an Established Filmmaker award.[4]
Works
Books
- The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988)
- The French Shore
- A Country So Wild and Grand
- The Heart of the Farm
- Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree/Terre des Cris (COTA, 2010)[5]
- Memphrémagog: An Illustrated History (volume 1)
Films
- The Pinnacle and the Poet
- Alexander Walbridge: The Visionary of Mystic
- Giving Shelter
- Crisscrossing Space and Time
- A Journey to Remember
- Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story
References
- ↑ Holmes, Gillian (1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999–2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 4. ISBN 0-920966-55-1.
- ↑ Greg Clark. "Louise Abbott – 2002 Award Recipient". The Canadian Journalism Foundation. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ↑ "Member Profiles". The Writer's Union of Canada. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ↑ Chloë bellande. "Jasper Short Film Festival reviewed". Montreal Times. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ↑ Peggy Curran. "McGill alums Louise Abbott, Niels Jensen and tales of the Cree". The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 27 October 2014.