Marie-Danielle Croteau

Marie-Danielle Croteau was born in Quebec, where she studied communications and art history in university. Croteau has worked for both Radio-Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Over the course of twenty years, she has lived in Africa, France, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, and Central America. She has also crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in a sailboat with her husband and her two kids, both born in Africa. During her travels, she wrote her first novel, which was published in 1993. Croteau is now a widely recognized author for both children and adults. She splits her time between Quebec City and Costa Rica.