Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard at the award ceremony for the National Order of Quebec in June 2013
Born (1943-11-27) November 27, 1943 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityFrench-Canadian
OccupationWriter
Known forPoet and novelist

Nicole Brossard OC CQ (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist.[1][2] Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes[3] and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.[4]

She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.

  1. ^ Susan Knutson (1 January 2006). Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-742-4.
  2. ^ Thomas O. Beebee (2008). Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction. Purdue University Press. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-1-55753-498-9.
  3. ^ Charlotte Sturgess (2003). Redefining the Subject: Sites of Play in Canadian Women's Writing. Rodopi. pp. 89–. ISBN 90-420-1175-0.
  4. ^ Marie J. Carrière (2002). Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. University of Toronto Press. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-0-8020-3620-9.