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Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard was born in Montréal in 1943. Twice Governor General’s Award winner for her poetry, she has published more than thirty books since 1965. Many have been translated into English: Mauve DesertThe Aerial LetterPicture TheoryLovhersBaroque at DawnThe Blue BooksInstallationsMuseum of Bone and WaterFluid ArgumentsNotebook of Roses and Civilization and White Piano. She has co-founded and co-directed the literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976), and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (1991 and 2003).
She is an officer of the Order of Canada, chevalière of the National Order of Quebec, and a member of l’Académie des lettres du Québec. She has twice won the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival Grand Prix Québecor (1989 and 1999). In 1991 she was awarded le Prix Athanase-David (the highest literary recognition in Québec). Her work has been widely translated into English and Spanish and is also available in many other languages, including German, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Romanian, Norwegian, Catalan, and Portuguese. Two anthologies of her work in English have appeared: Selections: the poetry of Nicole Brossard (2010) and Mobility of Light (2009), with another planned for publication in 2020.
Nicole has been awarded le Prix international de la littérature francophone Benjamin Fondane, le Prix du CIÉF for International Francophone Studies, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, and the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. In 2015, she was included in the dictionary Le Petit Robert des noms propres. In 2018, she was the recipient of the first Violet Prize awarded by the Blue Metropolis Festival. Mauve Desert has been presented as a multidisciplinary creation in 2018 and is slated for an opera adaptation in 2020-21.
In 2019, an anthology of her poetry in Portuguese and a translation of Mauve Desert in Catalan will be published. Her most recent book in English is an art chapbook titled A Cappella with illustrations by Mauricio Corteletti, translated by Erín Moure and Robert Majzels.

Books by Nicole Brossard

Museum of Bone and Water

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Erin Moure & Robert Majzels

Avant Desire

A Nicole Brossard Reader

by (author) Nicole Brossard
edited by Sina Queyras, Genevieve Robichaud & Erin Wunker

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

edited by Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj & Dionne Brand
contributions by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M.G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Ardour

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Angela Carr

White Piano

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Robert Majzels & Erin Moure

Fences in Breathing

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Susanne De Lotbinière-Harwood

Mobility of Light

The Poetry of Nicole Brossard

by (author) Nicole Brossard
edited by Louise H. Forsyth

Notebook of Roses and Civilization

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Robert Majzels

Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

by (author) Nicole Brossard

Mauve Desert

by (author) Nicole Brossard
afterword by Sina Queyras

Fluid Arguments

by (author) Nicole Brossard
edited by Susan Rudy
translated by Ann-Marie Wheeler

Intimate Journal

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Barbara Godard

The Blue Books

by (author) Nicole Brossard

She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel

by (author) Nicole Brossard

Raddle Moon 17

22 Vancouver Poets

edited by Susan Clark
by (author) Nicole Brossard

Installations

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Erin MourZ & Robert Majzels

The Aerial Letter

by (author) Nicole Brossard
translated by Marlene Wildeman

Lovhers

by (author) Nicole Brossard