Dionne Brand

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Dionne Brand is a Trinidad-born Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and former Toronto Poet Laureate renowned for her powerful explorations of race, gender, diaspora, and social justice.

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instanceOf Canadian writer
LGBT writer
essayist
feminist
novelist
person
poet
social justice activist
awardReceived Blue Metropolis Violet Prize
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
Griffin Poetry Prize
Harbourfront Festival Prize
Toronto Book Award
Trillium Book Award
birthName Dionne Brand
countryOfCitizenship Canada
Trinidad and Tobago
dateOfBirth 1953-01-07
educatedAt University of Toronto
University of Windsor
employer University of Guelph
endTime 2012
ethnicOrigin Afro-Caribbean
fieldOfWork Black studies
diaspora studies
feminist theory
fiction
literary criticism
nonfiction
poetry
social justice
genre essay
novel
poetry
hasInfluenceOn Black Canadian literature
Caribbean-Canadian writers
linked to: Caribbean Canadians
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Black Canadian literature
Caribbean literature
feminist literature
postcolonial literature
name Dionne Brand
narrativeFocus colonialism
diaspora
gender
memory
migration
race
social justice
notableWork A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
At the Full and Change of the Moon
Bread Out of Stone
In Another Place, Not Here
Inventory
Land to Light On
No Language Is Neutral
Ossuaries
Thirsty
What We All Long For
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago
positionHeld Poet Laureate of Toronto
residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada
linked to: Toronto
sexualOrientation lesbian
startTime 2009

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