Pierre Nepveu CM is a Montreal critic, essayist, poet and teacher. He has received the Governor General’s award three times—in 1997 for the collection of poems Romans-fleuves, in 1998 for the essay Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde, and in 2003 for Lignes Aériennes. His many other awards include the Québec-Paris Prize, the Prix Victor-Barbeau de l’Académie des lettres du Québec, and the Canada-Swiss Prize.

Pierre Nepveu has taught in the Département d’études françaises at Université de Montréal since 1978. Nepveu was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2012.

Books by Pierre Nepveu

The Major Verbs

Mirabel

Romans-fleuves

The Hardness of Matter and Water