Louise Cotnoir

Louise Cotnoir was a Canadian writer in Quebec.

Life and career

Cotnoir was born in Sorel and received a bachelor's degree in literary studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a master's degree in medieval studies from the Université de Montréal. She taught literature at the Cégep de Thetford from 1973 until she retired in 2007.
In 1993, she published her first collection of short stories La déconvenue; it received special mention by the jury for the Grand Prix de la nouvelle at the. It was also a finalist for the. Her 1996 collection of poetry Dis-moi que j'imagine was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and for the Prix Alain-Grandbois.
Her work has been translated into English, Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, Finnish and Chinese.
With her spouse, she was co-director for ' from 1981 to 1984. She was a member of the editorial board for the Canadian bilingual journal Tessera from 1989 to 1993. Cotnoir contributed to and served on the editorial board for the journal Arcade. She also has contributed to various Canadian and European periodicals including ', Estuaire, Lèvres urbaines, , Trivia, El Ciervo, Cahiers internationaux du symbolisme and Room of One's Own.
Cotnoir died on December 2, 2024, at the age of 75.

Selected works

Source:Si Cendrillon pouvait mourir, play Plusieures, poetry Les Rendez-vous par correspondance, poetry L'audace des mains, poetry Comme une chienne à la mort, poetry La théorie, un dimanche, "collaborative feminist poetics text", translated into English as Theory, A Sunday, with Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, Gail Scott, Louise Dupré and France ThéoretSignature païenne, poetry Asiles, poetry Des nuits qui créent le déluge, poetry Nous sommes en alarme, poetry Carnet américain, short stories Les îles, poetry, nominated for a Governor General's Award, translated as The Islands Le Cahier des villes, short stories