Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
Nicole Brossard
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- Name
- Nicole Brossard
- Born
- 27 November 1943
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- Writer
- Known for
- Poet and novelist
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Université de Montréal · Université du Québec à Montréal
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Canada · Molson Prize · Knight of the National Order of Quebec · Governor General's Literary Awards · Prix Athanase-David · Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec
- Languages
- French
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Biography
Biography
Nicole Brossard studied at Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal. The recorded working language is French. Residence is recorded at Montreal. Work by Nicole Brossard is recorded in the collections of Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and print collection of the national Library of BAnQ. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of Canada, Molson Prize, Knight of the National Order of Quebec and Governor General's Literary Awards.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Nicole Brossard • Born — 27 November 1943 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — Writer • Known for — Poet and novelist
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Nicole Brossard (born 27 November 1943) is described as a writer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Nicole Brossard was born on 27 November 1943 in Montréal, Canada.
Early life
Early life
Brossard was born in Montreal, Quebec. She attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal.
Career
Career
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 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, 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. She wrote a play Le nef des sorcières (first performed in 1976). In 1982, she founded a publishing house: L'Intégrale éditrice. Brossard's poetry collection, Double Impression, won the 1984 Governor General's Award. In 1987 her romance novel, Le désert mauve, was published. The Nicole Brossard archives are located in downtown Montreal at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. and at Library and Archives Canada. In April 2019, Brossard was announced as the 2019 Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient.
Identity
Identity
Nicole Brossard is recorded with the occupation women's rights activist. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as poet, writer, women's rights activist, novelist and director.
Life and career
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1943
Nicole Brossard was born on 27 November 1943.
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Nicole Brossard was born in Montreal.
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Recognition and collections
Nicole Brossard received Officer of the Order of Canada, Molson Prize, Knight of the National Order of Quebec, Governor General's Literary Awards, Prix Athanase-David and Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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- “Nicole Brossard”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 1974: Governor General's Award for Poetry • 1984: Governor General's Award for Poetry • 1991: Prix Athanase-David • 1991: Harbour Festival Prize • 2019: America Award in Literature for a lifetime contribution to international writing
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 Erín 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 Erín Moure, shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award
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