About: Gabriel Osson

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Gabriel Osson is a Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster, whose novel Le jour se lèvera won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2021. Originally from Port-au-Prince, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM, and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada. His debut novel, Hubert le restavèk, was published in 2017, and was followed by Le jour se lèvera in 2020 and Les Voix du chemin in 2021.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Gabriel Osson is a Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster, whose novel Le jour se lèvera won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2021. Originally from Port-au-Prince, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM, and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada. Osson has published three poetry collections, Efflorescences (2001), Envolées (2009) and D'ici et d'ailleurs (2021), and the travel memoir J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle (2015). Concurrently with the release D'ici et d'ailleurs, he also released an album of spoken word recitations of the book's poems with musical accompaniment by Dieufaite Charles and Fred Osson. His debut novel, Hubert le restavèk, was published in 2017, and was followed by Le jour se lèvera in 2020 and Les Voix du chemin in 2021. In 2019, he was one of 37 Franco-Ontarian writers anthologized in Poèmes de la résistance, a collection of poetry about the controversial cuts to Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions by the government of Doug Ford. In the same year, he was named by Ici Radio-Canada as one of the 25 most significant Black Canadian figures in Franco-Ontarian culture. (en)
  • Gabriel Osson est aussi auteur d'un recueil de poèmes; D'Ici et d'ailleurs publié aux éditions Terre d'Accueil. La plupart des poèmes sont mis en chanson dans un disque intitulé d'ici et d'ailleurs. Gabriel Osson Gabriel Osson, né en Haïti, est un écrivain et poète canado-haïtien vivant à Toronto et membre de la communauté franco-ontarienne de la province de l'Ontario au Canada.Son roman Hubert, le restavèk (2017) est finaliste du Salon du livre de Toronto#Prix Christine Dimitriu Van-Saanen lors du Salon du livre de Toronto en 2018. Son roman Le jour se lèvera (2020) est lauréat du prix Alain-Thomas lors du Salon du livre de Toronto en 2021. (fr)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 2000-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:nationality
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 67912680 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4633 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1122255360 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthPlace
  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti (en)
dbp:name
  • Gabriel Osson (en)
dbp:nationality
  • Haitian-Canadian (en)
dbp:notableworks
  • Le jour se lèvera (en)
dbp:occupation
  • novelist, poet (en)
dbp:period
  • 2000 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Gabriel Osson is a Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster, whose novel Le jour se lèvera won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2021. Originally from Port-au-Prince, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM, and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada. His debut novel, Hubert le restavèk, was published in 2017, and was followed by Le jour se lèvera in 2020 and Les Voix du chemin in 2021. (en)
  • Gabriel Osson est aussi auteur d'un recueil de poèmes; D'Ici et d'ailleurs publié aux éditions Terre d'Accueil. La plupart des poèmes sont mis en chanson dans un disque intitulé d'ici et d'ailleurs. Gabriel Osson (fr)
rdfs:label
  • Gabriel Osson (en)
  • Gabriel Osson (fr)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Gabriel Osson (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License