Hands on: Simone Chaput

This is a pic of Simone's hands on the lit podium at THIN AIR's opening night at the Oodena. (Oodena! Oodena!) She doesn't rest her hands on the podium when she reads - or grip the sides as some writers do - so this pic is the really the worst kind of artifice. But when you're shooting in the dark, you take whatever light's available...

(Simone reads with her hands clasped in the small of her back.)

*
Simone Chaput is a franco-manitobaine born in St Boniface. She has degrees in both French and English literature, and teaches language and literature at the Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg. A two-time winner of Le Prix Littéraire la Liberté, she has four titles in French, all published by Éditions du blé: Incidents de Parcours; Le Coulonneux; Un Piano dans le Noir; and La Vigne Amère. She has also written two novels in English, Santiago and A Possible Life (Turnstone). Chaput has another French novel coming out this fall. She lives in Old St Vital.

Simone Chaput est originaire de Saint-Boniface. Elle a obtenu des diplômes en littérature en français et en anglais, et elle enseigne la langue et la littérature françaises au Collegiate de l’Université de Winnipeg. Elle est l’auteure de quatre livres en français, Incidents de Parcours, Le Coulonneux, Un Piano dans le Noir et La Vigne Amère (Éditions du Blé) et de deux livres en anglais, Santiago et A Possible Life (Turnstone Press). Elle a été deux fois récipiendaire du Prix littéraire la Liberté. Son nouveau roman en français sera publié en automne. Elle vit dans le Vieux Saint-Vital.

* * *
Ariel Gordon has two chapbooks to her credit, The navel gaze (Palimpsest Press) and Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999 (Rubicon Press), and this spring, Palimpsest published her first full-length poetry collection, Hump. She recently won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer at the Manitoba Book Awards. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms.