Johanne Seymore, nominated for Best French Language Crime Book.

Johanne Seymore’s novel Fracture (published by Libre Expression) is nominated for Best French Language Crime Book. 

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Johanne Seymour is a French Quebec actress, writer, director and novelist.

She started her career as an actress on stage, TV and in films, before she switched to directing plays and writing for the popular comedy stage act: Jacques et Normand. She then went on to write a TV sitcom called Santa Maria. Interested in broadening her horizons, she later studied video at NYU and TV and film directing at l’Institut national de l’image et du son. Her movie La dernière pomme won the Bonzaï for best student short at the Tunis film festival (2000). 

Johanne worked as a screen writer (Santa Maria, Diva, Séquelles) and a TV director (Emma, Cent titres, Chanson pour Anna, La dernière pomme, L’Invitation) before she started writing the Kate McDougall crime novels in 2015. She adapted Le cri du cerf, the first novel of the series, under the title Séquelles. The mini series was first shown on Séries+, where it gathered the highest ratings ever for an in-house production. It continued its career on Crave and his now shown on Netflix.

Rinzen et l’homme perdu, her seventh novel and first of her new crime novel serie, has been hailed as a “series who will mark Quebec literature” and her  literary opus Le Goût de l’élégance is a French Quebec best-seller. Fracture, her last novel published in 2023, received rave critics and is short listed for the Crime writers awards.

Johanne also works as a script editor and script adviser and she is the founder of Les Printemps meurtriers, which was a popular crime festival in her town of Knowlton, Québec (2012–2016).

 

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