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Canadian writer

Roxane Desjardins
Desjardins in 2016Desjardins in 2016
Born1991
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • general manager
LanguageFrench
GenrePoetry

Roxane Desjardins (born 1991) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is the editor and general manager of the publishing house, Les Herbes rouges.

Biography

Roxane Desjardins was born in Montreal, 1991.

She began her literary practice with the artist's book and the fanzine. Her first collection of poetry, Ciseaux, was published in 2014 by Les Herbes rouges. She won the Prix Émile-Nelligan as well as the Prix Félix-Leclerc de la poésie [fr] and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec [fr]. In 2016, her story, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire, was published by Les Herbes Rouges, for which she was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit.

Desjardins served on the editorial board of the magazine Moebius between 2016 and 2018. Le Revers, her second collection of poetry, was published by Herbes Rouges in 2018, and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. These three works received critical acclaim. The same year, she published La Poésie des Herbes rouges, an anthology co-edited with Jean-Simon DesRochers [fr]. Desjardins became publisher and general manager of Les Herbes rouges in 2021.

Prizes and honours

  • 2013, Prix Expozine for the best French-language book for Cannibale maison
  • 2014, Prix Émile-Nelligan for Ciseaux
  • 2015, Prix Félix-Leclerc for Ciseaux
  • 2015, Longlisted for Prix des libraires du Québec pour Ciseaux
  • 2015, Prix Expozine for the best French-language book for Avant le geste
  • 2017, Finalist, Governor General's Award of Canada, Children's Literature - Text category, for Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire
  • 2018, Finalist, Société de développement des périodiques culturels québécois [fr] (SODEP) Excellence Award
  • 2018, Finalist, Governor General's Award, Poetry category, for Le revers

Selected works

Poetry collections

Narrative

  • Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire, Montréal, Éditions Les Herbes rouges, 2016, ISBN 9782894195697.

Anthologies

  • La Poésie des Herbes rouges, co-edited with Jean-Simon DesRochers, Montréal, Éditions Les Herbes rouges, 2018, ISBN 9782894196717.

Zines

  • Constance succombe, illustrated by Coco-Simone Finken, 2013.
  • Cannibale maison, illustrated by Coco-Simone Finken, 2013.
  • Avant le geste, in collaboration with Félix Durand, livre d’artiste, 2015.

References

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  7. ^ Bell, Vanessa; Cormier-Larose, Catherine (2021). Anthologie de la poésie actuelle des femmes au Québec, 2000-2020. Montréal: Les éditions du remue-ménage. p. 76. ISBN 9782890917347. OCLC 1248931408.
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  9. Corriveau, Hugues (10 January 2015). "Deux premiers recueils convaincants". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  10. Wiele, Aurélie Van de (16 April 2019). "De la négation absolue à la révolte : la théorie camusienne illustrée par la poétique des Fleurs du mal". Camus, l'artiste (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. pp. 257–265. ISBN 978-2-7535-5709-3. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  11. Dancause, Florence (27 October 2016). "La pénombre de l'adolescence. Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire de Roxane Desjardins". artichautmag.com. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  12. Collard, Nathalie (2 May 2021). "L'actualité des livres". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  13. "2013". Expozine (in French).
  14. "Les lauréats du prix Émile-Nelligan". www.fondation-nelligan.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  15. "Prix Félix-Leclerc de poésie". www.fiptr.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-11-12. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  16. "2015 - Expozine". expozine.ca (in French). 16 November 2013.
  17. ^ "Gagnants et finalistes précédents des LivresGG". Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général (in French).
  18. "Les prix d'excellence de la SODEP finalistes 2018" (PDF). www.sodep.qc.ca (in French).
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