Children's author from French-speaking Belgium Béatrice Renard (Béa Deru-Renard) will be in writing residence in Montreal for the next two months.
Awarded the Québec-Wallonia-Brussels Prize in 2011 for her work "All Alone Far from Samarkand", and winner in 2021 of a Wallonia-Brussels Federation Grant (Discovery Grant 2021), today the writer devotes to a new project entitled Là-Bas.
Béatrice Renard changes scenery and plunges us into the heart of the 14-18 war in Liège thanks to her work « Là-Ba ». The writer tells us the story of Suzanne, a young woman caught up in the turmoil of war. She will have no choice but to leave Belgium to go into exile in Quebec in the hope of a new start. Béatrice Renard tells us about the journey that Suzanne undertakes from the German invasion, to her transatlantic trip and her installation in Montreal.
Béatrice Renard will take advantage of her residency to continue her writing work.
Biography :
Béatrice Renard is a Belgian writer from Liège. Trained as an historian, after working in academic research, commercial delegation, and publishing, she spent a large part of her career as a teacher of history, social sciences, and psycho-pedagogy in higher secondary school. At the same time, she devotes herself in a self-taught way to children’s literature, then to general literature, as an author of albums and novels. Her children’s novel « Toute seule loin de Samarcande » (All alone away from Samarkand), tells the story of the exile of a young teenager following
the explosion of the USSR, was awarded the Price of Quebec-Wallonia-Brussels in 2011. Her first historical novel, « Cavales », dedicated to two great feminist figures who participated in the French Revolution, Olympe de Gouges and Théroigne de Méricourt, was published in 2021. objectifplumes.be/bea-deru-renard