Bertrand Laverdure

BERTRAND LAVERDURE is the author of six novels, including Universal Bureau of Copyrights and Readopolis (winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation), both translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. Hs many poetry publications include Cascadeuse and Sept et demi. He was awarded the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts (1999) and the Rina Lasnier Prize for Poetry (2003) for Les forêts. He was a literary chronicler on MAtv and CIBL Radio, and Poet Laureate of Montreal from 2015 to 2017.