Nancy Vickers (writer)

Nancy Vickers (born 1946) is a Canadian writer based in Ottawa, Ontario.[1] She is most noted as winner of the 1997 Trillium Book Award, French for her novel Le Pied de Sappho.[2]

Born and raised in Arvida, Quebec, she has lived in Ottawa since 1967.[3] She published her first poetry collection, Au parfum du sommeil, in 1989.[4]

She was also a Trillium nominee in 2009 for Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles[5] and in 2023 for Capharnaum,[6] and has been a two-time Ottawa Book Award winner for La Petite Vieille aux poupées in 2003[7] and Capharnaum in 2023.[8]

She is the mother of filmmaker Karim Hussain.[9]

Works

  • Au parfum du sommeil - 1989
  • La Montagne de verre - 1993
  • Le Trône des maléfices - 1994
  • Les sorcières de Chanterelles - 1996
  • Le pied de Sappho - 1996
  • Tchador - 1998
  • Les nuits de la Joconde - 1999
  • L'hermaphrodite endormi - 1999
  • Les satins du diable - 2002
  • La Petite Vieille aux poupées - 2003
  • Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles - 2009
  • Capharnaum - 2022

References