Diana Brebner

Diana Brebner
Diana Brebner
Born	May 20, 1956; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Died	April 29, 2001 (aged 44); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	poet

(Jennivien) Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet.^[1] She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award.^[2]

Life[]

Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at the University of Ottawa, the city she made her home for the remainder of her life.^[3]

Brebner's first three collections of poetry were published by Hendrika Ruger on Netherlandic Press.^[4] Her posthumous collection, The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005.^[5] The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded annually by Arc magazine.^[6]^[7]

Awards[]

Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for Radiant Life Forms, the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for The Golden Lotus, the Archibald Lampman Award in 1997 for Flora & Fauna.

Bibliography[]

Radiant Life Forms (1990) ISBN 0-919417-21-3
The Golden Lotus (1993) ISBN 0-919417-31-0
Flora & Fauna (1996) ISBN 0-919417-44-2
The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 2004. ISBN 978-0-7735-2835-2.

References[]

^ "Books in Canada - Review". www.booksincanada.com. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
^ Heward, Burt (May 19, 1990). "Ottawa Poets Top National Contest". The Ottawa Citizen.
^ "Book Launch and Reading". The Ottawa Citizen. November 21, 2004. p. C13.
^ Brebner, Diana (2004). Bolster, Stephanie (ed.). The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems. McGill-Queens University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0773528352.
^ "Stephanie Bolster | The Canadian Encyclopedia". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-20. Retrieved 2009-09-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Announcing the 2019 Diana Brebner Prize Winner and Honourable Mention". Arc Poetry. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-04-09.