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Katia Canciani
Katia Canciani (born February 16, 1971) is a Canadian writer and aviator originally from Blainville, Quebec. She was awarded the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for the novel Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.[1] BiographyKatia Canciani was born in 1971 to a Breton mother who emigrated to Canada at the age of six, and to a Gascon father who went to Canada to visit Expo 67 in Montreal. She grew up in the city of Blainville, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec.[2] She left home at 17 years old to pursue her studies at the Centre Québécois de Formation Aéronautique du Cégep de Chicoutimi where she obtained her professional pilot's license in 1991. She taught flight and aerobatics in Manitoba until 1995, then in Quebec in the summer of 1997.[3] Canciani lived in Ottawa, Ontario for several years and worked for Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation’s Contingency and Emergency Planning division.[4] In 2019, she was elected Chair of the NATO Transport Group Civil Aviation (TGCA), for a three-year term.[5] She currently resides in Brussels, Belgium.[4] WorksCanciani has authored more than 47 novels and children's books.[3] Her first novel, Un jardin en Espagne was published in 2006 and was a finalist for the Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada.[6] Her novel 178 secondes, was winner of the 2010 Prix littéraire des enseignants du Québec in the novel 15 years and over category.[7] She has also published Lettre à Saint-Exupéry, an epistolary novel in which she recounts her journey as a writer, pilot, and mother.[8] Novels
Children's books
Awards and honoursPet et Répète: La véritable histoire, illustrated by Guillaume Perreault, Fonfon (2019)
Sofia et le marchand ambulant, illustrated by Antoine Desprez, Les 400 coups (2019)
Théo, apprenti détective, illustrated by Jean Morin, Bayard (2017)
Pique la lune, illustrations de Félix Girard, l’Isatis (2015)
Le voyage en Chine illustrated by Félix Girard, l’Isatis (2015)
Samuel la tornade, illustrated by Christine Battuz, Bayard (2007)
Poussièra, illustrated by Julie Cossette, Bayard (2008)
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