Diana Brebner



Jennivien Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 - April 29, 2001 Ottawa, Ontario) was a Canadian poet.

Life
Brebner was born in Kingston, Ontario, the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants. She grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at the University of Ottawa, the city she made her home for the remainder of her life.

Her posthumous collection, The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005.

Recognition
Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for Radiant Life Forms, the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for The Golden Lotus, and the Archibald Lampman Award in 1997 for Flora & Fauna.

She is commemorated by the Diana Brebner Prize, awarded annually by Arc magazine written by a National Capital Region poet that has not yet been published in book form. . \

Publications

 * Radiant Life Forms. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1990. ISBN 0-919417-21-3
 * The Golden Lotus. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-919417-31-0
 * Flora & Fauna. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1996. ISBN 0-919417-44-2
 * The Ishtar Gate: last and selected poems (edited by Stephanie Bolster). Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7735-2835-2

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