Nicole Brossard
(1943 - living) Canada
Writer
One of Quebec's best-known literary figures, Brossard, of middle-class upbringing and education at the Université de Montréal, is widely known and respected in the rest of Canada and in France. Much of her work has been translated into English and some into German and Italian. She regularly places herself as a woman, feminist, lesbian and Writer in the midst of a kind of "hall of mirrors" that her overall body of more than twenty books seems to constitute.
While still married she met a gym teacher, Germaine, who became her lover in 1973, the same year that her first book of fiction appeared. But the love of her life was Marisa, whom she met in 1978.
Some of her works were...
- Turn of a Pang (Sold-Out) (1973)
- L'amèr (These Our Mothers or the Exploding Chapters, 1977)
- Lovhers (Amantes) (1980)
- Sens apparent (Surfaces of Sense, 1980)
- Picture Theory (1982)
- Le désert mauve (Mauve Desert, 1987)
Source excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, from Antiquity to WWII, Routledge, London, 2001
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