Carole Corbeil was a Canadian

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 arts critic and novelist. Born in Montreal

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 to Québécois

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 parents, her writing was often informed by the cultural displacement, and the subsequent sense of dual belonging, that she experienced when her parents divorced and her mother remarried to an anglophone man.

Originally known as an arts writer for The Globe and Mail

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in the 1980s, she published her debut novel

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 Voice-Over in 1992. Voice-Over was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award

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 in 1992, and was a co-winner with David Donnell

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's China Blues of the Toronto Book Award in 1993. She published her second novel, In the Wings, in 1998.

Corbeil was married to actor Layne Coleman. Their daughter, Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman

Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman

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, would later become a prominent actor and playwright.

Corbeil died in Toronto

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 in 2000 of cancer

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