Caroline Merola

Canadian illustrator and author

Caroline Merola

Born| 1962 (age 62-63)
Montreal, Quebec
Genre| comic book, children's book

Caroline Merola (born 1962) is a Canadian illustrator and author living in Quebec.

## Life

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Merola was born in Montreal, Quebec and received a college-level diploma in plastic arts from the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and a bachelor's degree in fine art from Concordia University.[1]

Her children's books have been translated into English, Czech and Arabic.[2]

She was host for the Télé-Métropole program Plexi-Mag and she contributed to the magazine Titanic.[3]

In 1990, Merola received the Prix Onésime [fr] for Ma Meteor bleue. In 1999, her Le rêve du collectionneur received the Prix Coup de Coeur at the Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec [fr].[1]

## Selected works

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* Cent Dangers, comic book (1986)
* La maison truquée, comic book (1994)
* Le Rêve du collectionneur, comic book (1994)
* Le roi des loups, children's book (1998)
* N'aie pas peur, Nic, children's book (2001), finalist for a Mr. Christie's Book Award
* L'Amateur, comic book (2003)
* La vache qui lit, children's book (2004)
* Une nuit en ville, children's book (2007)
* Lili et les poilus, children's book (2011), received a Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration[4][3][1]
* La périlleuse aventure de la petite bestiole (2019)

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Caroline Merola" (in French). Communication-Jeunesse. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
2. ^ "Caroline Merola" (in French). Les Éditions de la Bagnole.
3. ^ a b "Caroline Merola" (in French). Les Éditions du Boréal.
4. ^ "Caroline Merola". Salon du livre de l'Outaouais (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-08.

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