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On this page, you will find a number of accolades and awards regarding my literary work:
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards 2001
November 29, 2001
Lion D'Or, Montreal
AWARDS CEREMONY
LaFlorya Gauthier presents Hugh MacLennan Prize for FICTION
Winner, Yann Martel (Right), for
The Life of Pi,
Knopf Canada
 Ballantine award-winning prize: Whispers in the Sand
Ballantine award-winning One World imprint continues its exciting new mass market campaign with the sixth book in the new Indigo contemporary African American romance series. Here, an ambitious filmmaker travels to Africa to pursue her dream project--and finds her dream lover. A powerful romance filled with the sights, sounds, and flavors of a captivating culture.
After breaking her engagement to a childhood friend, filmmaker Lorraine Barbette flees her hometown of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to take an assignment in Senegal. On the flight over, Lorraine glimpses the future love of her life, diplomat Momar Diallo.
During the course of her stay in Senegal, Lorraine must learn to trust her instincts as a filmmaker-and trust her heart, too. Loving Momar is not an easy task: cultural differences and their careers keep them apart. Despite these things, Lorraine and Momar prove that love does in fact conquer all.
WHISPERS IN THE SAND is peppered with exotic language and cultural tidbits to take readers on a trip to paradise. This book is so steamy that you'll need to keep a glass of ice water close by.
_Chandra Y. Sparks
Book Description
Charlotte's Tree is a multi-generational saga based on true characters in LaFlorya Gauthier's family history.
There are three books: the first chronicles the life and times of Charlotte, LaFlorya's great-great grandmother who was raised by her free midwife Aunt Iona, and relates her epic struggles from 1827 to 1902.
The first book opens in Crystal Springs, Mississippi in the year 1827, on the day that an orphaned seven-year old Charlotte accompanies her Aunt Iona on a double mission: to bring Lucie Mae's baby into the world and to "do" for Miz Blaylock, wife of Doctor Blaylock who is Aunt Iona's sponsor and benefactor.
As the drama unfolds, Charlotte experiences vicissitudes of life in a small Mississippi town where slave owners and slave "poachers" are as menacingly unpredictable as the poverty of its black families is pervasive. Even the "papers" carefully wrapped in oiled parchment and carried as proof of statusfreedom or "owned"are not protection enough from abductions, murder, rape and mutilation. As Charlotte matures and emerges as the most capable midwife in the area, she marries a preacher and raises children of her own. But life in the backwaters of central Mississippi is changed forever by the events of the civil War and its aftermath.
In the final scene of book one, an aging Charlotte and her young grandson are driving a battered buckboard back to Charlotte's old home where she plans to spend her final days.
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