Renée Belliveau

Renée Belliveau is a Canadian writer and archivist from New Brunswick.

Biography

Renée Belliveau is from Shediac, New Brunswick, and describes herself as a "proud acadienne". She graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Arts, followed by the University of Waterloo with a Master of Arts, and finally the University of Toronto with a Master of Information.[1] She resides in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where she is employed as an archivist.[2][3] Her 2012 French-language memoir Les étoiles à l'aube recounts her father's fight with cancer.[1]

Belliveau draws inspiration for her writing from her archival work.[4] Her first novel was The Sound of Fire (2021), a work of historical fiction set in New Brunswick which recalls a devastating fire at Mount Allison University in 1941.[5] The novel was named a book of the year for 2021 by Quill & Quire,[6] and was shortlisted for the ReLit Novel Award.[2] Her next novel, A Sense of Things Beyond (2025), is set in Nova Scotia in 1922 and follows the story of a couple rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the First World War. The novel was inspired by real people; a military nurse who served on the front lines, and a man who was imprisoned in a German internment camp.[4]

Publications

  • Belliveau, Renée (2012). Les étoiles à l'aube (in French). Caraquet, N.B.: Les Editions de la Francophonie. ISBN 978-2-8962-7311-9.[1]
  • — (2021). The Sound of Fire. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7747-1018-0.[5][7][8][9]
  • — (2025). A Sense of Things Beyond. Halifax, N.S.: Vagrant Press. ISBN 978-1-7747-1452-2.[4][10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Renée Belliveau". New Brunswick Author Portal. Fredericton, N.B.: New Brunswick Public Libraries. 2021. Archived from the original on 14 January 2026. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Renée Belliveau". 49th Shelf. Association of Canadian Publishers. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  3. ^ [WFNS]. "Renée Belliveau". Halifax, N.S.: Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Archived from the original on 25 February 2026. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  4. ^ a b c Kelly, Katie (11 November 2025). "'A Sense of Things Beyond': Maritime author reimagines untold wartime stories in new novel". CTV News. Archived from the original on 22 November 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  5. ^ a b Colford, Ian (8 October 2021). "The Sound of Fire by Renée Belliveau". The Miramichi Reader. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  6. ^ Deogun, Inderjit (1 December 2021). "Books of the Year: Canada's book community shares their favourite reads of 2021". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 19 July 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  7. ^ Murray, Rebecca (25 October 2022). "Archivist Authors: The Sound of Fire by Renée Belliveau". Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 17 October 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  8. ^ Landon, Laura (19 October 2021). "Archivist's novel captures Mount Allison fire of 1941, highlights archival treasure trove". The Newsstand. Mount Allison University. Archived from the original on 7 August 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  9. ^ Butler, Erica (1 November 2021). "Renée Belliveau brings alive voices of tragic Mount A fire". CHMA-FM. Archived from the original on 23 May 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  10. ^ MacKinnon, Naomi (2025). "A beautiful, timely and relevant historical novel". Atlantic Books Today. No. 102. Halifax, N.S.: Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association. p. 33.
  11. ^ McBriarty, Heather (1 September 2025). "A Sense Of Things Beyond by Renée Belliveau". The Seaboard Review of Books. Archived from the original on 17 December 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
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