Dionne BRAND

Dionne Brand is a renowned poet, novelist, and essayist. Her writing is notable for the beauty of its language, and for its intense engagement with issues of international social justice. Her work includes nine volumes of poetry, five books of fiction and two non-fiction works, but she has also contributed to anthologies, and directed and edited several documentaries for the National Film Board.

Brand was the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto 2009-2012, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2017 for her contributions to Canadian literature.
She has also held various positions teaching literature, creative writing and women’s studies at universities across Canada and the United States.

Dionne Brand became prominent first as an award-winning poet, winning the Griffin Poetry Prize for her volume Ossuaries, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Trillium Book Prize for her volume Land to Light On. She has also achieved great distinction and acclaim in fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent novel, Theory won the Toronto Book Award 2019 and the BOCAS fiction prize.

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