Nicolas Dickner

Nicolas Dickner
Born	1972 Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec
Language	French
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	novels, short stories
Notable works	Nikolski

Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2005 novel Nikolski, which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated English editions.

He currently lives in Montreal, where he is a literary columnist for the alternative weekly newspaper Voir.^[1]

In 2014, Dickner and Dominique Fortier published Révolutions, a collaborative project for which they each wrote a short piece each day for a year based on a word chosen from the French Republican Calendar.^[2]

Works

• L'Encyclopédie du petit cercle, 2000
• Nikolski, 2005

English translation by Lazer Lederhendler published 2008.^[1]

• Traité de balistique, 2006
• Tarmac, 2009

Apocalypse for Beginners, English translation by Lazer Lederhendler published 2010.^[3]

• Le Romancier portatif : 52 chroniques à emporter, 2011

A selection from Dickner's column in Voir

• Révolutions, 2014
• Six degrés de liberté, 2015

Awards

Dickner at a 2010 reading

• L'encyclopédie du petit cercle

1. 2001 - Prix littéraire Adrienne-Choquette
2. 2001 - Prix Jovette-Bernier

• Nikolski

1. 2006 - Prix des libraires
2. 2006 - Prix littéraire des collégiens
3. 2006 - Prix Anne-Hébert
4. 2006 - Prix Printemps des Lecteurs–Lavinal
5. 2008 - Governor General's Award for French to English translation
6. 2010 - Winner of Canada Reads 2010

• Six degrés de liberté

1. 2015 - Governor General's Award for Fiction (French)

References

1. Canada Reads: Nikolski. cbc.ca.
2. "Un mot, un jour". Le Devoir, September 20, 2014.
3. M&S acquires new Terry Fallis and first book by Dr. Samantha Nutt. Quill & Quire, December 17, 2009.

External links

• (French) Nicolas Dickner