Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist who lives in France. She has published nine books of poetry and two books of essays. In 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish, and Turkish translations.
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“A stunning foray into a river of language plain yet so fertile it feels like slipping into the eternal pool of all dreams’ origin while wholly connected to waking life. The work assuages loneliness while inhabiting deepest solitudes of existence, its tumultuous riches of image and language connecting lives — especially lives of artists and working women — with an ageless territory of quest and revelation. An insightful meditation on the nature of being.”—2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Jury (David Chariandy, Conor Kerr, Kathleen Winter)Works Recognized by WT