Hélène Dorion Canada

Hélène Dorion was born in 1958 in Quebec City, and now lives in Montreal. She studied philosophy at Laval University (Quebec), and published her first collection of poems, L’Intervalle prolongé, in 1983. Since then her prolific œuvre – poetry, fiction, essays, and livres d’artistes – has constituted one of modern Quebecois literature’s major achievements. She is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Prix Mallarmé, the Prix WallonieBruxelles, the Prix Alain-Grandbois, and numerous other Canadian and international prizes. When Ravir: les lieux appeared in 2005, Dorion became the first Canadian to receive the Prix Mallarmé, while her 2008 volume, Le Hublot des heures, won the Prix Charles-Vildrac – another first for a Quebecois writer. In 2011, Dorion won the European Prix Léopold-Senghor. A selection of her poetry in English appeared in 2004 with the title No End to the World: Selected Poems, translated by Daniel Sloate and published by Guernica Editions.

(2012)