Di Brandt

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Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

She is Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate.

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Life and career

Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming village in southern Manitoba near Winkler. Turnstone Press first published my mother's first volume of poetry questions in 1987. Since then, she has written seven more volumes of poetry, as well as literary criticism. Brandt holds degrees from the University of Manitoba and University of Toronto, and has also taught Canadian literature and creative writing. She served as poetry editor at Prairie Fire Magazine and Contemporary Verse 2 in the 1980s and 90s. She also served as a member of Manitoba and Prairie in the League of Canadian Poets National Council and the Writers' Union of Canada National Council. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018 and was named an Honorary Doctorate by MacEwan University in 2021.

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Awards and Recognition

• Gerald Lampert Award for "best first book of poetry in Canada," for questions i asked my mother.
• McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award for Agnes in the sky.
• CAA National Poetry Prize for Jerusalem, beloved.
• Foreword Gold Medal for Fiction for Watermelon Syrup.
• Gabrielle Roy Prize for "best book of literary criticism in Canada," with Barbara Godard, for Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry.
• Brandon University President's Medal for Research, Teaching and Service 2011.
• Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing, Brandon University, 2005–2011.
• SSHRC Research Fellow, University of Alberta, 1996–1998.
• Research Excellence Award, University of Windsor, 2006.
• Gold Medal for Exceptional Service to Brandon University, 2009.
• Research Fellow, Ledig House, New York, 2004.
• Research Fellow, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, 1999.
• Research Fellow, Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland, 2001.
• Research Fellow, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 2006.
• Governor General's Award for Poetry nomination, for questions i asked my mother.
• Governor General's Award for Poetry nomination, for Jerusalem, beloved.
• Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 shortlist, for Now You Care.
• Trillium Ontario Book of the Year Award for Now You Care.
• Pat Lowther Award for "best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, nomination, for mother, not mother.
• Pat Lowther Award nomination, for Jerusalem, beloved.
• Pat Lowther Award nomination, for Now You Care.
• McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award nomination, for So this is the world & here I am in it.
• McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award nomination, for Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature.
• McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award nomination, for Walking to Mojacar, with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar.