Laure Paquette

Laure Paquette (B. 1060, Montreal) has written several plays for adult audiences in English and French, two of which have been performed, and a bilingual play on bullying for young audiences. Her play, Je m’appelle Abajiya, is in the National Archives of Canada. Self-taught, she has seen No, Kabuki, Beijing Opera, Indonesia puppet plays, and experimental theatre in New York and Amsterdam. She has read the complete works of Aristophanes, Beaumarchais, Beckett, Claudel, Corneille, Euridipes, Ibsen, de Musset, Pirandello, Racine, Seneca, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Strindberg, and Tchekov. A self-identified Métis, she has published two of a cycle of six novels, and is also a photographer and painter. She has won a prize for one of her short stories. Professor emeritus at Lakehead University, her international career included advice to several national governments, visiting professorships in 23 countries, 20 books held in the great libraries of the world, and political commentary in national and international media.