Denise Desautels

Denise Desautels has published nearly 40 volumes and won numerous honours, including the Governor General’s Award, the Prix du Festival International de la Poésie de Trois-Rivières and a CBC Literary Award. Her poetry anthologies include Mémoires parallèles (Éditions du Noroît, 2004) and The Night Will Be Insistent, Selected Poems: 1987–2002 (Guernica Editions, 2007), translated by Daniel Sloate. She received the Prix Athanase-David for Le cœur et autres mélancolies (Éditions Apogée, 2007). L’angle noir de la joie (Arfuyen and Le Noroît, 2011) marked her selection for the Jean Arp European Prize for Francophone Literature.