Nicolas Dickner

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.

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• Nicolas Dickner
• Interview with author nicolas dickner
• Works
• Awards
• References

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

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)