André Narbonne is a Canadian writer,Trevor Wilhelm
"Windsor’s Black Moss Press and writer Andre Narbonne score first Giller nod"
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'', September 8, 2022. whose novel ''Lucien & Olivia'' was longlisted for the 2022

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. Originally a marine engineer, Narbonne settled in Halifax,

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, in the mid-1980s, and studied English literature at

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.Patricia Sandberg
"TWELVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT, BY ANDRÉ NARBONNE"
''The Miramichi Reader'', January 16, 2021. He is a former chair of the Halifax chapter of the Canadian Poetry Association, and was the winner of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick's David Adams Richards Award in 2008 for his short story collection "The Separatists". He later pursued his Ph.D. at the

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, and is currently a professor of English at the

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."André Narbonne's debut novel Lucien and Olivia takes a comedically blunt look at love in 1980s Halifax"

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, September 22, 2022. His short story collection ''Twelve Miles to Midnight'', was published in 2016, and was shortlisted for the

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in 2017. In 2017, he published the poetry collection ''You Were Here''.Luke J. Frenette
"On the Road Behind: André Narbonne's You Were Here"
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'', November 5, 2017. ''Lucien & Olivia'', his debut novel, was published by Black Moss Press in 2022.

Works

*''Twelve Miles to Midnight'' - 2016 *''You Were Here'' - 2017 *''Lucien & Olivia'' - 2022

References

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