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Gabriel Osson is a Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster, whose novel Le jour se lèvera won the Prix Alain-Thomas from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2021.[1]

Originally from Port-au-Prince,[1] he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM,[2] and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada.[3]

Osson has published two poetry collections, Efflorescences (2001) and Envolées (2009),[4] and the travel memoir J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle (2015).[5]

His debut novel, Hubert le restavèk, was published in 2017,[6] was followed by Le jour se lèvera in 2020 and Les Voix du chemin in 2021.

In 2019, he was one of 37 Franco-Ontarian writers anthologized in Poèmes de la résistance, a collection of poetry about the controversial cuts to Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions by the government of Doug Ford.[7] In the same year, he was named by Ici Radio-Canada as one of the 25 most significant Black Canadian figures in Franco-Ontarian culture.[2]

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- [en] Gabriel Osson

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[fr] Gabriel Osson

Gabriel Osson est aussi auteur d'un recueil de poèmes; D'Ici et d'ailleurs publié aux éditions Terre d'Accueil. La plupart des poèmes sont mis en chanson dans un disque intitulé d'ici et d'ailleurs. [1]

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