Nicolas Dickner
Nicolas Dickner 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.
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.Works
- L'Encyclopédie du petit cercle, 2000
- Nikolski, 2005
- Traité de balistique, 2006
- Tarmac, 2009
- Le Romancier portatif : 52 chroniques à emporter, 2011
- Révolutions, 2014
- Six degrés de liberté, 2015
Awards
- L'encyclopédie du petit cercle
- 2001 - Prix littéraire Adrienne-Choquette
- 2001 - Prix Jovette-Bernier
- 2006 - Prix des libraires
- 2006 - Prix littéraire des collégiens
- 2006 - Prix Anne-Hébert
- 2006 - Prix Printemps des Lecteurs–Lavinal
- 2008 - Governor General's Award for French to English translation
- 2010 - Winner of Canada Reads 2010
- 2015 - Governor General's Award for Fiction
