The Knowlton Literary Festival is pleased have Louise Penny as its Honorary Patron. Louise's first book Still Life was published in 2005 and since then she has written fifteen books in the Armand Gamache series, all set in Québec. Translated into 29 languages, the novels have won or been shortlisted for most of the major crime fiction awards, including the US Edgars and seven Agathas, the UK Gold Dagger and the Canadian Arthur Ellis. She and her husband founded a Canadian literary prize aimed at encouraging emerging writers.
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