Museum of Bone and Water

About Nicole Brossard

NICOLE BROSSARDs collections of poetry have twice won the Governor Generals Literary Award and the Grand Prix de la poésie de la Fondation des Forges. She has been honoured with the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize the Prix Athanase David the inaugural Blue Metropolis Violet Prize and the Harbourfront Festival Prize among other awards and her work has been translated into ten languages. She is an officer of the Order of Canada chevalière of the National Order of Quebec and a member of lAcadémie des lettres du Québec. In addition to her poetry Brossard has written novels plays and essays; directed two films; and co-founded the literary journal La Barre du Jour. She lives in Montreal. ERÍN MOURE is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours she is a two-time winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award (in poetry and translation) a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. ROBERT MAJZELS won the Governor Generals Literary Award for his translation of France Daigles novel Just Fine and he has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize the Governor Generals Literary Award and the Best Translated Book Award for his translations (with Erín Moure) of Nicole Brossards poetry. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary.