Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist, and essayist born in Montreal in 1943. Since 1965, Brossard has published forty books, including Mauve Desert, The Aerial Letter, and Museum of Bone and Water, most of which have been translated into several languages. Her writing influenced an entire generation. She is also cofounder of the literary review La Barre du Jour, the feminist journal Les Têtes de Pioche, coauthor of l'Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec and of the film Some American Feminists. She collaborated on the theatre play La nef des sorcières. She is the winner of several prizes, including the Governor General's Award (1974, 1984), the Athanase-David Prize (1991), the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize (2007), the Benjamin Fondane International Award for Francophone Literature, and the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize for her lifetime work. She is a member of the Académie des Lettres du Québec since 1991, an Officer of the Order of Canada, Knight of the Ordre national du Québec, and Fellow of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.
