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Nicole Brossard was born in Montreal in 1943. Since 1965, she has published more than thirty books, including Museum of Bone and Water, The Aerial Letter and Mauve Desert, which was reissued by Coach House Books this spring. In recognition of her contributions to the revitalization of francophone poetry in Quebec, Brossard has twice been awarded the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, first in 1974 and again ten years later. In 1965, she co-founded the literary periodical La barre du jour and, in 1976, the feminist journal Les têtes de pioche. That same year, she co-directed the movie Some American Feminists. In 1991, Brossard collaborated with Lisette Girouard on an anthology of women’s poetry from Quebec entitled Des origines à nos jours. She was also awarded the Prix Athanase-David, Quebec’s highest literary distinction. In 2003, she received the W.O. Mitchell Prize for mentorship and was given a career bursary from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Her books have been translated into English, Spanish and Japanese. Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood was nominated for a 2005 Governor General’s Award for her translation of Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon, Brossard’s most recent novel.

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