Denise Desautels Wins Jaime Sabines/Gatien Lapointe International Poetry Award 2026
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The Quebec poet was awarded for her work Tombeau de Lou / Sepulchre de Lou. Faced with the accelerated pace of the contemporary world, the author stressed that poetry acts as a space of pause and resistance from within.
Today the Quebec poet Denise Desautels won the Poetry Award “Jaime Sabines – Gatien Lapointe” 2026 for “Tombeau de Lou/Sepulchre de Lou”, considered by the jury as a “work of mature language, organized as the account of an agony, but also as the finding that such a story is impossible. His phrases seem woven by a visceral force.” He also said that “it is a book with a sustained rhythm that transforms into a pulse toward pain until life is rescue…
The Quebec writer was recognized for her book ‘Tombeau de Lou/Sepulcher de Lou’.
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