Nancy Vickers (writer)
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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]
