Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third poet laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and its first Black poet laureate.
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Nawal El SaadawiAlso in Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives... East and West (1999)
Adrienne RichAlso in Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation (1996)
Susan HoweAlso won Griffin Poetry Prize
Martha MinowAlso won Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto
Dieter GrimmAlso won Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto
Gwendolyn MacEwenAlso won Pat Lowther AwardAbout this person
Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third poet laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and its first Black poet laureate. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017 and has won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, the Trillium Book Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. Brand lives in Toronto.
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CanadaCategory
Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1953 · age 73
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10 languages
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