Valérie Bah
Valérie Bah is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2025 for her debut novel Subterrane.[1] The book was published by Véhicule Press in 2024.[2]
In 2020, Bah and Tatiana Zinga Botao collaborated on Sol, a short documentary about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black Canadian women, as part of the National Film Board of Canada's The Curve film series.[3]
She published the French-language short story collection Les Enragé.e.s in 2021.[4] The Rage Letters, an English translation by Kama La Mackerel, was published by Metonymy Press in 2023,[5] and received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Literature at the 36th Lambda Literary Awards in 2024.[6]
References
- ↑ Nicole Thompson, "Valérie Bah wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for 'Subterrane'". Victoria Times-Colonist, June 6, 2025.
- ↑ Dani Carter, "Sublingual Information". Montreal Review of Books, October 30, 2024.
- ↑ Fanny Bourel, "7 documentaires portés par le regard de personnes noires à voir en ligne". Ici Radio-Canada, February 21, 2021.
- ↑ Samuel Larochelle, "Valérie Bah, donne une voix aux enragé.e.s". Fugues, September 3, 2021.
- ↑ Shazia Hafiz, "The Rage Letters". Quill & Quire, November 2023.
- ↑ Michael Schaub, "Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards Revealed". Kirkus Reviews, March 29, 2024.
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