Martine Audet

(Canada, 1961)

She has published a dozen poetry collections since 1996, as well as several artist books and children's albums, as well as participating in literary and artistic events in Quebec and abroad, and her poems have been translated into German, English, Catalan, Spanish and Italian. She received the Estuaire Prize, the Alain-Grandbois Prize and, for her book  La Société des cendres, the 2020 Governor General's Poetry Prize and the 2020 Grand Prix Quebecor (tie) of the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival. She is a member of the Quebec Academy of Letters.

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Between the immense and the intimate. Women poets of Quebec

Françoise Roy

Poet, translator, storyteller and photographer, Françoise Roy was born in Quebec, in 1959, but has lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, since 1992. Master in geography with diplomas in Hispanic studies (Master of arts, University of Florida, 1983), in Translation (OMT, 2000) and in Photography (Colegio Fotográfico de Occidente, 2013). She has published thirteen poetry collections, five chapbooks, three books of short stories, one of essays and four novels, in French or Spanish. She has won the National Prize for Literary Translation in Poetry (INBA, 1997), the Jacqueline Déry-Mochon Novel Award (Quebec, 2006), the Alonso Vidal national poetry awards (Sonora, 2007 and Tijuana 2015), as well as the Ditët e Naimit international awards (Macedonia, 2008) and Poetry Nights of Curtea de Arges (Romania, 2011), the DJS Translation Award (Beijing-Los Angeles, 2016) and the AESAL Poetry Prize (Paris, 2019). She has been invited to poetry festivals or artistic residencies in 18 countries, and has translated about 70 books.