Petite, Geneviève a toujours eu un crayon dans la main. Elle admirait inlassablement chaque nouvelle boîte de crayons Prismacolor. Plus grande, après ses études universitaires, elle a exercé le métier de designer industriel pendant trois ans, mais est vite revenue au dessin. L’illustration est devenue la carrière rêvée pour elle.
Depuis plus de vingt ans, elle a illustré plus d’une cinquantaine d’albums, dont quelques-uns sont traduits dans une dizaine de langues. Elle a été maintes fois récompensée dans divers concours, dont le prix des Libraires du Québec, le prix du Gouverneur Général du Canada, le prix Elisabeth Mrazik-Cleaver (Canada), le prix Chronos (France) et plus récemment les prix des Incorruptibles (France).
Elle a signé son premier livre à titre d’autrice et illustratrice et a maintenant plusieurs autres projets qui attendent ses mots. Elle vit sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal avec sa famille et son chien et elle passe une partie de ses étés à s’inspirer au bord de la mer aux Escoumins, sur le bord du fleuve.
As a child, Geneviève always had a pencil in her hand. She tirelessly admired each new box of Prismacolor pencils. Growing up, after her university studies, she worked as an industrial designer for three years, but quickly returned to drawing. Illustration has become the dream career for her and has completed several contracts in various fields.
The chances of life led her to take a professional break to go and enjoy her maternity leave in Europe in 2003. She spent 3 years in Paris and Italy where she took the opportunity to visit various children’s book fairs.
For more than twenty years, she has illustrated more than forty albums, some of which have been translated into ten languages. She has been rewarded many times in various competitions, including the Prix des Libraires du Québec, the Governor General’s Literary Award of Canada, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award (Canada), the Prix Chronos (France) and more recently the Incorruptibles Award (France). She signed her first book as an author and illustrator and now has several other projects awaiting her words. She lives on the South Shore of Montreal with her family and her dog and she spends part of her summers by the sea, getting inspiration in Les Escoumins, on the Saitn-Laurence River.
