Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

Brand in 2009
Brand in 2009
Born (1953-01-07) 7 January 1953 (age 71)
Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago
Occupationpoet
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BA)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (MA)
Genre

Dionne Brand CM FRSC (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and first Black Poet Laureate.[1][2][3] She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017[4][5] and has won the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize for Literature, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, the Harbourfront Writers' Prize, and the Toronto Book Award.[6] Brand currently resides in Toronto.[7]

  1. ^ O'Toole, Megan (30 September 2009). "Dionne Brand is city's new poet laureate". National Post. Retrieved 1 October 2009.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Lassotta, Carmen. "Dionne Brand". Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Dionne Brand: Biography" Archived 18 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Poetry Online, University of Toronto Libraries.
  4. ^ "Order of Canada honorees desire a better country", The Globe and Mail, 30 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Order of Canada celebrates 50 years by welcoming new members", Toronto Sun, 30 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Dionne Brand | College of Arts". www.uoguelph.ca. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Dionne Brand". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

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