Gabrielle Poulin

Gabrielle Poulin (June 21, 1929 - January 31, 2015) was a Canadian writer. One of the most prominent writers in Franco-Ontarian literature, she was most noted for her 1994 novel Le Livre de déraison, which won the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 1994.

Born and raised in Saint-Prosper, Quebec, she spent her adult life in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband, historian and academic René Dionne.

She was a three-time Trillium Book Award nominee, receiving nods for La Couronne d'oubli in 1991, for Le Livre de déraison in 1995. and for Ombres et lueurs in 2004.

René Dionne et Gabrielle Poulin : œuvres et vies croisées, an anthology of critical essays about both Dionne's and Poulin's work, was published in December 2014 just a few weeks before Poulin's death.

Works Fiction Cogne la caboche (1979) English translation All the Way Home by Jane Pentland, 1984 Un cri trop grand (1980) Les Mensonges d'Isabelle (1983) La Couronne d'oubli (1990) Le Livre de déraison (1994) Qu'est-ce qui passe ici si tard? (1997)

Poetry Petites fugues pour une saison sèche (1991) Nocturnes de l'oeil (1993) Mon père aussi était horloger (1996) Ombres et lueurs (2003)

Non-fiction Les miroirs d'un poète (1969) Romans du pays, 1968-1979 (1980) La Vie, l'Écriture (2000)