Louise Abbott


Louise Abbott is a Canadian non-fiction writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Quebec's Eastern Townships. She graduated from McGill University in 1972, and is a writer and photographer, with work having appeared in: the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Heritage and Photo Life.

Awards

Abbott received the 2002 Canadian Journalism Foundation Greg Clark Internship Award, and in the same year the Professional Writers Association of Canada's Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism.
Her first book, The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, was a finalist for the 1989 QSPELL Award.
In 2014, her documentary, Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story, won the inaugural Jasper Short Film Festival Best Film by an Established Filmmaker award.

Works

Books