Martine Audet
Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres. She was previously a nominee at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for Orbites, at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for Les manivelles, at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille and at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Tête première / Dos / Contre dos, and won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2001 for Les tables.
Martine Audet
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- Name
- Martine Audet
- Born
- October 15, 1961
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- poet
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- Prix Alain-Grandbois · Governor General's Award for French-language poetry
- Languages
- French
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Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres. She was previously a nominee at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for Orbites, at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for Les manivelles, at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille and at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Tête première / Dos / Contre dos, and won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2001 for Les tables.
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• Name — Martine Audet • Born — October 15, 1961 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — poet • Period — 1990s-present • Notable Works — Les tables, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos
Selected works
Selected works
• Poèmes du lendemain ("Poems from the following day") (1993) • Les murs clairs ("The clear walls") (1996) • Doublures ("Stuffings") (1998) • Orbites ("Eye-sockets") (2000) • Les tables ("The Tables") (2001) • Les mélancolies ("The Wistful Sadnesses") (2003) • Que ferais-je du jour ("What Would I Make of the Day") (2005) • Les manivelles ("Cranks") (2006) • L'amour des objets ("The Love of the Objects") (2009) • Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille ("I Beg Forgiveness of the Shining Species") (2010) • Le ciel n'est qu'un détour à brûler ("The Sky is Just a Bend to Burn") (2010) • Des lames entières ("Some Whole Blades") (2011) • Des voix stridentes ou rompues (Some Voices either Shrill or Broken") (2013) • Tête première / Dos / Contre dos ("First Head / Back / Against Back") (2015)
Diane Régimbald, Denise Desautels, Nora Atalla, Martine Audet, Joséphine Bacon, Claudine Bertrand, Anne-Marie Duquette, Duygu Ozmekik, Yara El-Ghadban Laure Morali photographed in Montréal, Québec, Canada at the Salon du livre de Montréal 2018.
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Martine Audet photographed in Montréal, Québec, Canada at the Salon du livre de Montréal 2018.
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