Nicole Brossard | |
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 Nicole Brossard at the award ceremony for the National Order of Quebec in June 2013 | |
| Born | November 27, 1943 |
| Nationality | French-Canadian |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Poet and novelist |
Nicole Brossard OC CQ (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. [1] [2] Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes [3] and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. [4]
Brossard was born in Montreal, Quebec. [5] She attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal.
Brossard wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la saison. [6] The collection L'Echo bouge beau marked a break in the evolution of her poetry that included an open and active participation in many literary and cultural events, including poetry recitals.
In 1975, she participated in a meeting of writers on women, after which she began to take an activist role in the feminist movement, [7] and to write poetry with a more personal and subjective tone. Her writing includes sensual, aesthetic and feminist political content.
Brossard co-founded a feminist newspaper, Les têtes de pioches, with France Théoret. [8] She wrote a play Le nef des sorcières (first performed in 1976).
In 1982, she founded a publishing house: L'Intégrale éditrice. [9] Brossard's poetry collection, Double Impression, won the 1984 Governor General's Award. [10] In 1987 her romance novel, Le désert mauve, was published. [11]
The Nicole Brossard archives are located in downtown Montreal at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. [12] and at Library and Archives Canada. [13]
In April 2019, Brossard was announced as the 2019 Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient. [14]
Erín Moure Erín Moure is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs; she has translated or co-translated 21 books of poetry and two of biopoetics from French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, and Ukrainian, by poets such as Nicole Brossard, Andrés Ajens, Chantal Neveu, Rosalía de Castro, Chus Pato, Uxío Novoneyra, Lupe Gómez, Fernando Pessoa, and Yuri Izdryk. Three of her own books have appeared in translation, one each in German, Galician, and French. Her work has received the Governor General’s Award twice, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, A. M. Klein Prize twice, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize and three-time finalist in the USA for a Best Translated Book Award (Poetry). Her latest is The Elements (2019) and Theophylline: an a-poretic migration will appear in 2023. Her work is rooted in a philosophical mix that accepts mystery, not always immediately accessible, and she has won several prizes, including the Governor General's Award twice.
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