Le Nordir was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1988 to 2012. Based primarily in

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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

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. It moved to Ottawa a couple of years later, after Yergeau joined the faculty of the

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. It ceased publishing in 2012 after Yergeau's death."Des temps difficiles pour l’édition franco-ontarienne"

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, March 22, 2018. Writers published by the company included

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, 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 ...

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