Gabriel Osson
Gabriel Osson is a Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster, whose novel Le jour se lèvera won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2021.[1]
Originally from Port-au-Prince,[1] he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM,[2] and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada.[3]
Osson has published two poetry collections, Efflorescences (2001) and Envolées (2009),[4] and the travel memoir J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle (2015).[5]
His debut novel, Hubert le restavèk, was published in 2017,[6] and was followed by Le jour se lèvera in 2020.
In 2019, he was one of 37 Franco-Ontarian writers anthologized in Poèmes de la résistance, a collection of poetry about the controversial cuts to Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions by the government of Doug Ford.[7] In the same year, he was named by Ici Radio-Canada as one of the 25 most significant Black Canadian figures in Franco-Ontarian culture.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Salon du livre de Toronto: Gabriel Osson remporte le prix Alain-Thomas". L'Express, February 23, 2021.
- ^ a b "Gabriel Osson, auteur et animateur radio à Toronto". Ici Radio-Canada, February 27, 2019.
- ^ Annik Chalifour, "7e Salon du livre haïtien: sortir de l’ombre!". L'Express, December 9, 2020.
- ^ Paul-François Sylvestre, "Chaque livre de Gabriel Osson est un contrat social". L'Express, October 18, 2019.
- ^ Constance Longobardi, "Gabriel Osson raconte son Chemin de Compostelle". L'Express, December 15, 2015.
- ^ Raymond Desmarteau, "Hubert le restavèk : un roman coup de coeur de Gabriel Osson". Radio Canada International, March 18, 2017.
- ^ Bienvenu Senga, "Poèmes de la résistance : 37 auteurs franco-ontariens dénoncent les compressions de Doug Ford". Ici Radio-Canada, May 8, 2019.
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