Esther Croft

Esther Croft (born 1945) is a Quebec educator and writer.[1]

She was born in Quebec City and was educated at the Université Laval. She studied with Élisabeth Bing in Paris on how to lead writing workshops. On her return, she taught theatre and creative writing at the Université Laval. Croft has led writing workshops for people from various professions; she also established Les Ateliers d'écriture Esther Croft. She has written for various periodicals such as Châtelaine, La revue de la nouvelle, Arcade, XYZ, Le Devoir and La parole métèque.[1]

Selected works[1]
  • Au commencement était le froid, stories (1993), received the Prix Desjardins from the Salon du livre de Québec in 1994 and was also a finalist for the Prix de l'Institut canadien de Québec, the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the Signet d'or from Radio-Québec
  • Tu ne mourras pas, stories (1997)
  • De belles paroles, novel (2002)
  • Le reste du temps, stories (2007), received the Prix de création littéraire for adult literature from Quebec City[1] and the Prix Adrienne-Choquette,[2] and was included on the short list for the Governor General's Literary Awards[3]
  • Les rendez-vous manqués, stories (2011), received the Prix littéraires des enseignants AQPF-ANEL in 2011
gollark: Sure they can. Just apply penalties/taxes if you pollute stuff.
gollark: > Tell factories to produce 100K units of winter clothing and give them free choice of a variety of different accepted models.But then you don't know how much stuff each factory will need.
gollark: But a firm has the simple goal of "maximize profit", which makes all that way easier.
gollark: And you have to somehow merge the disagreements into some compromise version and it's all quite hard.
gollark: Anyway, the linear programming thing: just how do you assign values for millions of different end-product goods? If you have people vote on it, they'll probably only be remotely competent to decide on a summary or something, and the process of translating the summaries into full plans will probably involve someone making subjective decisions themselves and influencing the process.

References
  1. "Croft, Esther" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. "Prix Adrienne-Choquette". Écrivains francophones d’Amérique.
  3. "Archived - The Canada Council for the Arts Announces Finalists for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Awards". Government of Canada. October 16, 2007.


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