Nicole Brossard
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Nicole Brossard Template:Post-nominals (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist.<ref name="Knutson2006">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Beebee2008">Template:Cite book</ref> Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes<ref name="Sturgess2003">Template:Cite book</ref> and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.<ref name="Carrière2002">Template:Cite book</ref>
She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
Early life
Brossard was born in Montreal, Quebec.<ref name="Royer1996">Template:Cite book</ref> She attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal.
Career
Brossard wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la saison.<ref name="Santoro2002">Template:Cite book</ref> 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,<ref name="Maher2005">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="KarpinskiHenderson2013">Template:Cite book</ref> She wrote a play Le nef des sorcières (first performed in 1976).
In 1982, she founded a publishing house: L'Intégrale éditrice.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Brossard's poetry collection, Double Impression, won the 1984 Governor General's Award.<ref>Nicole Brossard's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia</ref> In 1987 her romance novel, Le désert mauve, was published.<ref>"Nicole Brossard en sept questions". La Presse, 18 November 2010</ref>
The Nicole Brossard archives are located in downtown Montreal at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.<ref>Fonds Nicole Brossard (MSS232) - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)</ref> and at Library and Archives Canada.<ref>Fonds Nicole Brossard (R11718) - Library and Archives Canada</ref>
In April 2019, Brossard was announced as the 2019 Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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)<ref name="KaindlSpitzl2014">Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- Canadian literature
- Canadian poetry
- List of Canadian poets
- List of Canadian writers
- List of Quebec writers
References
Further reading
External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
- EPC and PennSound link
- The Literary 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
- Fonds Nicole Brossard (R11718) at Library and Archives Canada
- 1943 births
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Poets from Montreal
- Canadian women poets
- French-language Canadian poets
- 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
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Knights of the National Order of Quebec
- Canadian lesbian writers
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people