Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2017-05-11
Invested on: 2018-09-06
Dionne Brand, C.M.
Toronto, Ontario
With stirring, raw passion, Dionne Brand’s art sensitizes Canada to the need for social justice. An acclaimed and award-winning writer, poet and documentarist, she has explored, with beauty, the difficult themes of gender, race and sexuality, while shining a light on the experience of living in a post-colonial world. A professor of literature at the University of Guelph, she is recognized as one of our most engaged and deeply thoughtful writers.