Danielle Fournier

Danielle Fournier (born 1955) is a Quebec educator and writer.[1]

She was born in Montreal and received a PhD in literature from the Université de Sherbrooke. She also studied German at the University of New Brunswick. She has taught at the college and university level at various institutions including the Université de Sherbrooke, the University of New Brunswick, at McGill University, the Université du Québec à Montréal, at Concordia University and at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, where she held a permanent position.[1]

Fournier has written poetry, fiction and critical essays for various magazines such as Exit, Arcade, Estuaire, Moebius, Spirale, Urgences, Québec français and Voix et Images. Her work has also appeared in a number of anthologies. In 2003, she was awarded the Prix Alain-Grandbois for her poetry collection Poèmes perdus en Hongrie.[1] In 2005, Il n'y a rien d’intact dans ma chair was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry[2] and, in 2010, her collection effleurés de lumière won that award.[3]

Selected works[1]
  • Langue éternelle, poetry (1998)
  • Poèmes perdus en Hongrie, poetry (2002)
  • Le chant unifié, novel (2005)
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gollark: Everyone's on centralised platforms like this or Facebook.
gollark: It's a shame forums are mostly dead now.
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gollark: https://web.archive.org/web/20200307193040/https://stemscouts.org/ (I duckduckgoed it but the live website is down)

References
  1. "Fournier, Danielle" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. "The Canada Council for the Arts Announces Finalists for the 2005 Governor General's Literary Awards". Marketwired. October 17, 2005.
  3. "Winners of 2010 Governor Generals Literary Awards announced". Canada Council for the Arts. November 16, 2010.
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