Nathalie petrowsky biography of alberta

For more than four decades, Nathalie Petrowski, BA 76, has been a staple of Quebec’s cultural landscape. As a journalist, critic, columnist, screenwriter and novelist — and occasional lightning rod — she has represented many things to many people.

Petrowski began her career in 1975 as a journalist, and sometime critic, at Le Journal de Montréal while still completing her degree in Communication Studies at Concordia.

She quickly moved on to Le Devoir where she wrote for the culture section, before finally joining La Presse in 1992, where she “retired” a year ago (more on that below).

Petrowski has a handful of books and screenplays to her name, including the novel Maman Last Call, which she helped adapt into a Genie-nominated film.

The title of her recently published memoir, La critique n’a jamais tué personne (“criticism never killed anyone”; Éditions La Presse, 2019), is a tongue-in-cheek reference to her reputation