Nicolas Dickner

Timo Obergoker (University of Chester)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1972
Activity 2006-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

French Canadian

Resources

Dickner's Works

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Nicolas Dickner was born in Rivière-du-Loup (Quebec, Canada) in 1972 and studied Literature and Creative Writing in Quebec City. He obtained the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix Anne-Hébert for

Nikolski

in 2006 as well as a Governor General’s Award for the novel

Six degrés de liberté

in 2015. He is generally considered a “geek” author who incorporates numerous aspects of popular culture into his work. He has also published under the pseudonym Alexandre Bourbaki alongside Bernard Wright and the cartoonist Sebastien Trahan.

Recurrent topics of his novels include:

Globalisation Being passionate, he is fascinated about the interconnectedness of the world and of people in different, often very remote, places. He is therefore fascinated

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Citation: Obergoker, Timo. "Nicolas Dickner". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 October 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13847, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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