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Hélène Dorion

エレーヌ・ドリオン

Erenu Dorion

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1958-04-21 （Quebec City, Quebec, Canada）
Nationality
Canada
Languages
French
Residence History
Quebec City → Montreal

Career

Occupations
poet, writer, editor
Active Years
1983-
Affiliations
Publisher Noroît, Académie des lettres du Québec
Memberships
Academy of Arts of Oradea
Nominations
Finalist-Alvine Bélisle Award (2007, The cradled Life), Finalist Prix du livre jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal (2007)

Awards

Order of Canada
2010
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: Officer
National Order of Quebec
2007
Result: Chevalier
Prix Mallarmé
2005
Work: delight: the places
Result: Winner
Governor General's Award
2006
Work: delight: places
Result: Recipient
Prix Alain-Grandbois
1996
Work: Without board, world without end
Organization: Académie des Lettres du Québec
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

delight: the places

2005 Poetry 117 pages

A collection of poems celebrating places.

placesdelightfragility
Translations
  • English translation available

Bibliography

  • Le Hublot des heures
  • Mondes fragiles, choses frêles
  • Ravir : les lieux
  • Portraits de mers
  • Les Murs de la grotte
  • Pierres invisibles
  • Sans bord, sans bout du monde
  • Jours of sand
  • The cradled Life

Translations of Works

  • The edges of light: selected poems, 1983-1990
  • No End to the World: Selected Poems

Style & Themes

Literary Style
delicate imagerymotifs of nature and time
Recurring Motifs
fragilitylightseas

Legacy

Renowned Canadian poet awarded numerous prizes, with works translated internationally.

Archives

  • Library and Archives Canada

Trivia

  • First Quebecer to receive the Mallarmé Prize in 2005.