Marianne
Dubuc
Marianne Dubuc is an author and illustrator who has published more than a dozen picture books. She works in French and her books have been published in more than 25 languages. Her first book, The Sea (Le mer), appeared in 2006. Other works include The Bird and the Lion (Le lion et l’oiseau), which received a 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award; Mr. Postmouse’s Rounds (Le tournée de Facteur Souris), which won the 2016 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Children’s Picture Books; and Up the Mountain Path (Le chemin de la montagne), which won a 2018 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Dubuc lives in Montreal.
Videos
Interview with Marianne Dubuc, 2020 Vicky Metcalf Award winner
Award History
Jury Citation
“Marianne Dubuc has created an unforgettable and enchanting oeuvre of stories. Funny and intimate, her books orbit the deepest of subjects, casting questions of friendship, loneliness, change, and loss, with the lightest of lines and quietest grace. Many writers for children are frightened of the blank page but Dubuc uses white space and silence with great confidence, demonstrating a profound respect for her young readers. She knows children are sage and curious and holders of immense feeling. She knows, as children know, that a story is often what happens between words. She lets us all in.
‘You’re welcome to stay with me,’ Lion says in The Lion and the Bird.
And we reply, ‘Yes. I think we will.’
With this award, we are delighted to celebrate and honour a writer and illustrator whose quiet brilliance is showcased in a body of work that includes, thus far, more than a dozen picture books available in both her langue maternelle, French, and in English translation, in Canada and around the world.”
— 2020 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Jury (Caroline Adderson, Kyo Maclear, and Susan Perren)
