Nancy Vickers (born 1946) is a Canadian writer based in Ottawa, Ontario. [1] She is most noted as winner of the 1997 Trillium Book Award, French for her novel Le Pied de Sappho. [2]
Born and raised in Arvida, Quebec, she has lived in Ottawa since 1967. [3] She published her first poetry collection, Au parfum du sommeil, in 1989. [4]
She was also a Trillium nominee in 2009 for Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles [5] and in 2023 for Capharnaum, [6] and has been a two-time Ottawa Book Award winner for La Petite Vieille aux poupées in 2003 [7] and Capharnaum in 2023. [8]
She is the mother of filmmaker Karim Hussain. [9]
Nancy Vickers (born 1946) is a Canadian writer based in Ottawa, Ontario. [1] She is most noted as winner of the 1997 Trillium Book Award, French for her novel Le Pied de Sappho. [2]
Born and raised in Arvida, Quebec, she has lived in Ottawa since 1967. [3] She published her first poetry collection, Au parfum du sommeil, in 1989. [4]
She was also a Trillium nominee in 2009 for Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles [5] and in 2023 for Capharnaum, [6] and has been a two-time Ottawa Book Award winner for La Petite Vieille aux poupées in 2003 [7] and Capharnaum in 2023. [8]
She is the mother of filmmaker Karim Hussain. [9]