Nancy Vickers (writer)

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]

Works

• Au parfum du sommeil - 1989
• La Montagne de verre - 1993
• Le Trône des maléfices - 1994
• Les sorcières de Chanterelles - 1996
• Le pied de Sappho - 1996
• Tchador - 1998
• Les nuits de la Joconde - 1999
• L'hermaphrodite endormi - 1999
• Les satins du diable - 2002
• La Petite Vieille aux poupées - 2003
• Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles - 2009
• Capharnaum - 2022