Gabriel Osson

{{Short description|Haitian-Canadian writer and broadcaster}}

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| birth_place = Port-au-Prince, Haiti

| occupation = novelist, poet

| period = 2000s-present

| nationality = Haitian-Canadian

| notableworks = Le jour se lèvera

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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.[https://l-express.ca/salon-du-livre-de-toronto-gabriel-osson-remporte-le-prix-alain-thomas/ "Salon du livre de Toronto: Gabriel Osson remporte le prix Alain-Thomas"]. L'Express, February 23, 2021.

Originally from Port-au-Prince, he is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he hosts the weekly world music show Franco découvertes on CHOQ-FM,[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1155331/gabriel-osson-auteur-animateur-radio "Gabriel Osson, auteur et animateur radio à Toronto"]. Ici Radio-Canada, 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.Annik Chalifour, [https://l-express.ca/7e-salon-du-livre-haitien-sortir-de-lombre/ "7e Salon du livre haïtien: sortir de l’ombre!"]. L'Express, December 9, 2020.

Osson has published three poetry collections, Efflorescences (2001), Envolées (2009)Paul-François Sylvestre, [https://l-express.ca/chaque-livre-de-gabriel-osson-est-un-contrat-social/ "Chaque livre de Gabriel Osson est un contrat social"]. L'Express, October 18, 2019. and D'ici et d'ailleurs (2021),Annik Chalifour, [https://l-express.ca/gabriel-osson-tournee-cd-poemes-livres-musique/ "Gabriel Osson en tournée: un CD de poèmes et deux nouveaux livres"]. L'Express, November 23, 2021. and the travel memoir J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle (2015).Constance Longobardi, [https://l-express.ca/gabriel-osson-raconte-son-chemin-de-compostelle/ "Gabriel Osson raconte son Chemin de Compostelle"]. L'Express, December 15, 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,Raymond Desmarteau, [https://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2017/03/18/hubert-le-restavek-un-roman-coup-de-coeur-de-gabriel-osson/ "Hubert le restavèk : un roman coup de coeur de Gabriel Osson"]. Radio Canada International, March 18, 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 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.Bienvenu Senga, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1168552/recueil-poemes-poesie-resistance-auteurs-franco-ontariens-salon-livre-hearst-mai-2019 "Poèmes de la résistance : 37 auteurs franco-ontariens dénoncent les compressions de Doug Ford"]. Ici Radio-Canada, May 8, 2019. 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.