Roxane Desjardins

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Roxane Desjardins
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Desjardins in 2016
Born1991
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • general manager
LanguageFrench
GenrePoetry

Roxane Desjardins (born 1991) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the editor and general manager of the publishing house, Les Herbes rouges. [1]

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Biography

Roxane Desjardins was born in Montreal, 1991. [2]

She began her literary practice with the artist's book and the fanzine. [3] Her first collection of poetry, Ciseaux, was published in 2014 by Les Herbes rouges. She won the Prix Émile-Nelligan as well as the Prix Félix-Leclerc de la poésie  [ fr ] and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec  [ fr ]. [4] [5] In 2016, her story, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire, was published by Les Herbes Rouges, for which she was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. [6]

Desjardins served on the editorial board of the magazine Moebius between 2016 and 2018. [7] Le Revers, her second collection of poetry, was published by Herbes Rouges in 2018, and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. [8] These three works received critical acclaim. [9] [10] [11] The same year, she published La Poésie des Herbes rouges, an anthology co-edited with Jean-Simon DesRochers  [ fr ]. Desjardins became publisher and general manager of Les Herbes rouges in 2021. [1] [12]

Prizes and honours

Selected works

Poetry collections

Narrative

Anthologies

Zines

References

  1. 1 2 Dufour, Geneviève (17 May 2021). "Roxane Desjardins nommée à la tête des Herbes rouges". Revue Les libraires (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Roxane Desjardins". Tout à coup - La poésie (in Canadian French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Rencontre d'écrivains du CRILCQ avec Roxane Desjardins, " Une hanche et demie " – CRILCQ" (in Canadian French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Les laureats du prix Emile-Nelligan". fondation-nelligan.org (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023– via archive.wikiwix.com.
  5. ↑ "Roxane Desjardins". Les Herbes rouges (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Beaulieu, Isabelle (4 October 2017). "Les finalistes des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général 2017". Revue Les libraires (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  7. 1 2 Bell, Vanessa; Cormier-Larose, Catherine (2021). Anthologie de la poésie actuelle des femmes au Québec, 2000-2020. Montréal: Les éditions du remue-ménage. p. 76. ISBN   9782890917347. OCLC   1248931408.
  8. ↑ "Livres gagnants et finalistes précédents". Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  9. ↑ Corriveau, Hugues (10 January 2015). "Deux premiers recueils convaincants". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  10. ↑ Wiele, Aurélie Van de (16 April 2019). "De la négation absolue à la révolte : la théorie camusienne illustrée par la poétique des Fleurs du mal". Camus, l'artiste (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. pp. 257–265. ISBN   978-2-7535-5709-3 . Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Dancause, Florence (27 October 2016). "La pénombre de l'adolescence. Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire de Roxane Desjardins". artichautmag.com. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  12. ↑ Collard, Nathalie (2 May 2021). "L'actualité des livres". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  13. ↑ "2013". Expozine (in French).
  14. ↑ "Les lauréats du prix Émile-Nelligan". www.fondation-nelligan.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  15. ↑ "Prix Félix-Leclerc de poésie". www.fiptr.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-11-12. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  16. ↑ "2015 - Expozine". expozine.ca (in French). 16 November 2013.
  17. 1 2 "Gagnants et finalistes précédents des LivresGG". Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général (in French).
  18. ↑ "Les prix d'excellence de la SODEP finalistes 2018" (PDF). www.sodep.qc.ca (in French).
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