Colette Colette Colette (; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colette was widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. The writer was the subject of numerous biographies, songs, and films, including 2018's "Colette". Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), "née" Landoy, in the village of
Gabrielle Gourdeau Gabrielle Gourdeau Gabrielle Gourdeau (1952 – July 5, 2006) was a writer in Quebec, Canada. Born in the Limoilou neighbourhood of Quebec City, Gourdeau received a PhD in French literature from the University of Toronto. She lectured in the Department of Literature at Laval University for a number of years. In 1992, she received a fellowship grant from Laval University to assist her in writing "Analyse du discours narratif", a work of literary criticism. That same year, Gourdeau published her first novel "Maria Chapdelaine ou le Paradis retrouvé"; despite some negative reaction from critics, it was awarded the Prix Robert-Cliche