Nicole Brossard
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 |
| Awards | O.C. |
Nicole Brossard, O.C. (born November 27, 1943) is a leading French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist.[1]
She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
Life and work
Brossard wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la saison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marked a break in the evolution of her poetry that included an open and active participation in numerous cultural events (such as poetry recitals). In 1975, she participated in a meeting of writers on women, a point marking both a more activist role in the feminist struggle and writing a poetry that becomes more personal in tone and subjectivity. There are two poles in her writing, both aesthetic and political: on the one hand its modernism and avant-gardism; and on the other a sensual and activist writing that shows a commitment to a feminist consciousness.
Brossard founded a feminist newspaper, Les têtes de pioches, and wrote a play Le nef des sorcières (first performed in 1976). In 1982, she founded a publishing house: L'Intégrale éditrice.
The Nicole Brossard archives are located in downtown Montreal at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.[2]
Selected bibliography
- Aube à la saison - 1965
- Mordre en sa chair - 1966
- L'écho bouge beau - 1968
- Suite logique - 1970
- Un livre - 1970 (translated in English as A Book)
- Le centre blanc - 1970
- Mécanique jongleuse - 1974 (translated in English as Day-Dream Mechanics; winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
- La partie pour le tout - 1975
- Sold-Out, étreinte / illustration - (1973) 1977
- L'amèr ou le Chapitre effrité - 1977(translated in English as These Our Mothers)
- French kiss, étreinte / exploration - (1974) 1979
- Les sens apparent - 1980 (translated in English as Surfaces of Sense)
- Amantes - 1980 (translated in English as Lovhers; nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Journal intime - 1984
- Double impression - 1984 (winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
- Domaine d'écriture - 1985
- La lettre aérienne - 1985 (translated in English as The Aerial Letter)
- Le désert mauve - 1987 (translated in English as Mauve Desert)
- L'amer - 1988
- Installations: avec sans pronoms - 1989
- A tout regard - 1989
- La nuit verte du parc labyrinthe - 1992
- Langues obscures - 1992
- Baroque d'aube - 1995 (translated in English as Baroque at Dawn)
- Vertige de l'avant-scène - 1997 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Au présent des veins - 1999
- Musée de l'os et de l'eau - 1999 (translated into English as Museum of Bone and Water; nominated for a Governor General's Award;)
- Hier - 2001 (translated in English as Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon)
- Cahier de roses & de civilisation - 2003 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- English translations
- These Our Mothers- 1983; translated by Barbara Godard
- Baroque at Dawn - 1997
- Museum of Bone and Water - 2005
- Fluid Arguments - 2005
- Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon - 2006
- Picture Theory - 2006
- Mauve Desert - 2006
- Notebook of Roses and Civilization - 2007; translation by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, shortlisted for the 2008 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
- Fences in Breathing - 2009
- Nicole Brossard: Selections - 2010; edited by Jennifer Moxley for the series: Poets for the Millennium from University of California Press
- White Piano - 2013; translation by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure, shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award[3]
Further reading
- Gould, Karen (1990), "Nicole Brossard", in Gould, Karen (ed.), Writing in the feminine: feminism and experimental writing in Quebec, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN 9780809315826
References
- ^ Nicole Brossard Publications
- ^ Fonds Nicole Brossard (MSS232) - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).
- ^ Chad W. Post (April 14, 2014). "2014 Best Translated Book Awards: Poetry Finalists". Three Percent. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
- EPC and PennSound link
- The Literary Encyclopedia
- Nicole Brossard's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Nicole Brossard Bio
- Fine Feminist Workings Susan Rudy's review of Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works, by Louise H. Forsyth; published by Guernica Editions in 2005
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- 1943 births
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Writers from Montreal
- LGBT writers from Canada
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian poets in French
- Governor General's Award-winning poets
- Living people
- Prix Athanase-David winners
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Harbourfront Festival Prize winners
- People from Outremont, Quebec
- LGBT poets
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- French-language LGBT writers
- Knights of the National Order of Quebec
- Lesbian writers