Carole David
Carole David, (Montréal, QC), was born in Montreal and is a poet, fiction and short story writer as well as a professor of literature. She has been a bookseller, a critic for several cultural periodicals, a columnist for Le Devoir and has also worked in publishing. Her first book of poetry, Terroristes d’amour (1986) won the Émile Nelligan prize, while Abandons, published in 1996, won the Terrasses-Saint-Sulpice prize, an award given by the poetry periodical Estuaire. Her novel Impala (1994), published in English and Italian, was a finalist for the Journal de Montréal prize and the Grand Prize of the City of Montréal. She was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1999 for her book of poetry La maison d’Ophélie and has just published a collection of poetry for adolescents with the publisher La Courte Échelle, entitled Averses et réglisses noires. She has also participated in book fairs and reading tours abroad. (Photo: Les Herbes rouges).
Carole David is a writer member appointed by the PLR Commission.
