Dionne Brand (født 7. januar 1953) er en canadisk digter, forfatter, essayist og dokumentarist. Hun har været Torontos poeta laureatus, som den første sorte digter. I 2017 blev hun optaget i Order of Canada. Derudover har hun vundet en række priser, herunder Trillium Book Award, Pat Lowther Award og Toronto Book Award. Dionne Brand bor i Toronto.https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dionne-brandhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120204101403/http://www.nwpassages.com/bios/brand.asp
I dansk oversættelse findes den essayistiske genrehybrid Et kort over Døren der gjorde tilbagevenden umulig (OVO press, 2022) og digtet "prolog for nu - Gaza".https://mikaslang.com/prologfornu
I en dansk kontekst peger Celine Szabó i sin digtsamling Fremkaldelser (2024) på Brands bog.
Tidlige liv og uddannelse Dionne Brand blev født i Guayaguayare, Trinidad og Tobago. Hun dimitterede fra Naparima Girls' High School i San Fernando, Trinidad, i 1970 og emigrerede til Canada. Hun gik på University of Toronto og fik en bachelorgrad (Engelsk og filosofi) i 1975 og senere en kandidatgrad i pædagogisk filosofi fra Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) i 1989.
Karriere Hendes første bog, Fore Day Morning: Poems, udkom i 1978. Siden da har Brand udgivet adskillige digtsamlinger, romaner og nonfiktionbøger. Hun har desuden redigeret antologier og arbejdet på dokumentarfilm.
Hun har undervist i litteraturvidenskab, kønsstudier og creative writing på flere universiteter.
I blev hun ansat som poesiredaktør på McClelland & Stewart, et forlag under Penguin Random House Canada.Robertson, Becky, "Dionne Brand named M&S's new poetry editor", Quill & Quire, 16. august 2017. Brand er også blandt redaktørerne af det Toronto-baserede litterære tidsskrift Brick.
Priser og hæder Brands priser omfatter:
1997: Governor General's Award for Poetry og Trillium Book Award for Land to Light On (1997) 2003: Pat Lowther Award for thirsty (2002) 2006: City of Toronto Book Award for What We All Long For (2005) 2006: Harbourfront Festival Prize som anerkendelse af hendes vigtige bidrag til litteraturen 2006: Medlem af the Academies for Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (tidligere the Royal Society of Canada) 2009: Poeta Laureatus i Toronto 2011: Griffin Poetry Prize for Ossuaries 2015: Æresdoktor ved Thorneloe University"Dionne Brand Admitted to Order of Canada", Thorneloe University, 30. juni 2017. 2017: Æresgrad fra University of WindsorWaddell, Dave, "University of Windsor to award nearly 3,500 degrees at spring convocation", Windsor Star, 29. maj 2017. 2017: Medlem af Order of Canada (indsat 6. september 2018)"Ms. Dionne Brand". The Governor General of Canada. 2019: Blue Metropolis Violet Prize"Dionne Brand named recipient of 2019 Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize". CBC Books, 3. april 2019. 2021: Windham-Campbell Literature Prize (fiktion)Marsha Lederman, "Two Canadian writers win Windham-Campbell Prize, a week before one takes over for the other at McClelland & Stewart". The Globe and Mail, 24. marts 2021.
Bibliografi
På dansk
2022 : Et kort over Døren der gjorde tilbagevenden umulig - noter om tilhør. København: OVO press, oversat af Mikas Lang,
Poesi 1978: Fore Day Morning: Poems. Toronto: Khoisan Artists, 1979: Earth Magic. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1982: Primitive Offensive. Toronto: Williams-Wallace International Inc., 1983: Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia. Toronto: Williams-Wallace International Inc., 1984: Chronicles of the Hostile Sun. Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 1990: No Language is Neutral. Toronto: Coach House Press, ; McClelland & Stewart, 1998, 1997: Land to Light On. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002: thirsty. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006: Inventory. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010: Ossuaries. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018: The Blue Clerk. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2022: Nomenclature. Durham: Duke University Press,
Fiktion 1988: Sans Souci and Other Stories. Stratford, ON: Williams-Wallace, and 1996: In Another Place, Not Here. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1999: At the Full and Change of the Moon. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2005: What We All Long For. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2014: Love Enough. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2018: Theory, Toronto: Knopf Canada,
Nonfiktion 1986: Rivers have sources, trees have roots: speaking of racism (med Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta). Toronto: Cross Cultural Communications Centre, 1991: No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s–1950s (med Lois De Shield). Toronto: Women's Press, 1994: Imagination, Representation, and Culture 1994: We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History (med Peggy Bristow, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton og Adrienne Shadd). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, og 1994: Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics. Toronto: Coach House Press, ; Toronto: Vintage, 1998, 2001: A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Toronto: Random House Canada, og 2008: A Kind of Perfect Speech: The Ralph Gustafson Lecture Malaspina University-College 19 October 2006. Nanaimo, BC: Institute for Coastal Research Publishing, 2020: An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press,
Dokumentarfilm Older, Stronger, Wiser. Inst. Claire Prieto. Co-instr. Dionne Brand (Del I af Women at the Well trilogy). National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1989 Sisters in the Struggle. Instr. Dionne Brand og Ginny Stikeman (Del II af Women at the Well trilogy). National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1991 Long Time Comin'''. Instr. Dionne Brand. (Del III af Women at the Well trilogy). National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1991 Listening for Something: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation. Instr. Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1996 Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives ... East and West. Instr. Jennifer Kawaja. Fortalt af Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, 1999 Under One Sky: Arab Women in North America Talk About the Hijab. Instr. Jennifer Kawaja. Fortalt af Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, 1999 Borderless: A Docu-Drama About the Lives of Undocumented Workers''. Instr. Min Sook Lee. Fortalt af Dionne Brand. KAIROS Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, 2006.
Kilder
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