CANADIAN MYSTERY AUTHOR ENRICHES HER MURDER TALES WITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH CANADIAN CULTURE
April 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA
FOR a stranger living in a strange land, Louise Penny does not feel so out of place - the Toronto-born, Anglophone writer cannot imagine calling anywhere home then Québec's Eastern Townships.
Penny, the author behind the successful Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series (set primarily in the fictional Québec village of Three Pines) has drawn on her own experience as an Anglophone living in a primarily Francophone community to paint a backdrop for the majority of her works. Naturally, then, the theme of language and cultural ...
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