Gabriel Osson

Biography

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. 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, and serves as president of the Association des auteurs.res de l’Ontario français and founding president of the Association Haïti Futur-Canada. Osson has published three poetry collections, Efflorescences (2001), Envolées (2009) and D'ici et d'ailleurs (2021), and the travel memoir J’ai marché sur les étoiles: sept leçons apprises sur le chemin de Compostelle (2015).

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