Gabriel Osson is a

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an-

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writer and broadcaster, whose novel ''Le jour se lèvera'' won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the

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in 2021."Salon du livre de Toronto: Gabriel Osson remporte le prix Alain-Thomas"
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'', February 23, 2021. Originally from

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, he is currently based in

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, where he hosts the weekly

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show ''Franco découvertes'' on CHOQ-FM,"Gabriel Osson, auteur et animateur radio à Toronto"

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, February 27, 2019. and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada. Osson has published three poetry collections, ''Efflorescences'' (2001), ''Envolées'' (2009) and ''D'ici et d'ailleurs'' (2021),Annik Chalifour
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'', November 23, 2021. and the travel memoir ''J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle'' (2015). Concurrently with the release ''D'ici et d'ailleurs'', he also released an album of spoken word recitations of the book's poems with musical accompaniment by Dieufaite Charles and Fred Osson. His debut novel, ''Hubert le restavèk'', was published in 2017, and was followed by ''Le jour se lèvera'' in 2020 and ''Les Voix du chemin'' in 2021. In 2019, he was one of 37

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writers anthologized in ''Poèmes de la résistance'', a collection of poetry about the controversial cuts to Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions by the government of

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, May 8, 2019. In the same year, he was named by

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as one of the 25 most significant

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figures in Franco-Ontarian culture.

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