Brossard Wins Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award

French Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist Nicole Brossard will receive the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry’s Lifetime Recognition Award at the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Readings on June 5, 2019. Brossard will attend the events in Toronto and read briefly on June 5, and at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards Evening on June 6.

Brossard was born in Montréal in 1943, and has twice been honored with the Governor General’s Award winner for her poetry. Other prizes Brossard has achieved include le Prix international de la littérature francophone Benjamin Fondane, le Prix du CIÉF for International Francophone Studies, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, and the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. 

Brossard has published more than thirty books since 1965, many of which have been translated into English: Mauve Desert, The Aerial Letter, Picture Theory, Lovhers, Baroque at Dawn, The Blue Books, Installations, Museum of Bone and Water, Fluid Arguments, Notebook of roses and civilization and White Piano. She has co-founded and co-directed the literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976), and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (1991 and 2003). In 2019, an anthology of her poetry in Portuguese and a translation of Mauve Desert in Catalan will be published, and Coach House Books plans to publish a reader of Brossard's selected works in 2020.