Le Nordir was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1988 to 2012. Based primarily in
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
,
Ontario
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, the company specialized in Franco-Ontarian literature, publishing primarily poetry, theatrical plays and non-fiction.
The company was established in 1988 by Robert Yergeau, while he was employed at the
Université de Hearst
Université de Hearst (formerly Collège universitaire de Hearst) is a public French-language university with its main campus in Hearst, Ontario, Hearst, Ontario, Canada. The university has additional campuses in Timmins and Kapuskasing.
For mo ...
. It moved to Ottawa a couple of years later, after Yergeau joined the faculty of the
University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...
.
It ceased publishing in 2012 after Yergeau's death.
"Des temps difficiles pour l’édition franco-ontarienne"
TFO
TFO is a Canadian French language educational television channel and media organization serving the province of Ontario. It is owned by the Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority (OTELFO), a Crown corporation owned by the ...
, March 22, 2018.
Writers published by the company included Daniel Poliquin
Daniel Poliquin (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler.
Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa ar ...
, Andrée Christensen, Stefan Psenak Stefan Psenak (born 1969 in Joliette, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, playwright, novelist and politician from Quebec.
He won the Trillium Book Award in 1998 for ''Du chaos et de l'ordre des choses'',W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. ...
and François Paré
François-Rosaire Paré (born 1949 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a Québécois author and academic specialising in the literature of cultural minorities, though He started his career as a professor of French Renaissance literature.
Paré lived in Mo ...
.
References
Book publishing companies of Canada
Defunct publishing companies of Canada
Franco-Ontarian organizations
Companies based in Ottawa
Canadian companies established in 1988
Canadian companies disestablished in 2012
Publishing companies established in 1988
Publishing companies disestablished in 2012
1988 establishments in Ontario
2012 disestablishments in Ontario
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