{{Short description|Canadian poet}} {{Infobox person |birth_date=May 20, 1956 |birth_place=Kingston, Ontario, Canada |death_date={{death date and age|2001|4|29|1956|5|20}} |death_place=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |occupation=poet }} '''(Jennivien) Diana Brebner''' (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=4536|title=Books in Canada - Review|website=www.booksincanada.com|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref> She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Heward|first=Burt|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/463858056/|title=Ottawa Poets Top National Contest|date=May 19, 1990|work=The Ottawa Citizen}}</ref>
==Life== Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at the University of Ottawa, the city she made her home for the remainder of her life.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/455909681/|title=Book Launch and Reading|date=November 21, 2004|work=The Ottawa Citizen|page=C13}}</ref>
Brebner's first three collections of poetry were published by Hendrika Ruger on Netherlandic Press.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brebner|first=Diana|title=The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems|publisher=McGill-Queens University Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0773528352|editor-last=Bolster|editor-first=Stephanie|pages=165}}</ref> Her posthumous collection, ''The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems'', was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/index.php/en/article/stephanie-bolster|title=Stephanie Bolster {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref> The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded annually by ''Arc'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arcpoetry.ca/mag/contests/diana_brebner_prize.php |title=::Arc Poetry::Mag::Diana Brebner Prize:: |access-date=2009-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820001959/http://www.arcpoetry.ca/mag/contests/diana_brebner_prize.php |archive-date=2009-08-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arcpoetry.ca/2019/09/30/2015-diane-brebner-prize-winner-and-runner-up-announced-2/|title=Announcing the 2019 Diana Brebner Prize Winner and Honourable Mention|date=2019-10-01|website=Arc Poetry|language=en|access-date=2020-04-09|archive-date=2019-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230153019/http://arcpoetry.ca/2019/09/30/2015-diane-brebner-prize-winner-and-runner-up-announced-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Awards== Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for ''Radiant Life Forms'', the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for ''The Golden Lotus'', the Archibald Lampman Award in 1997 for ''Flora & Fauna''.
==Bibliography== *''Radiant Life Forms'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-919417-21-3}} *''The Golden Lotus'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-919417-31-0}} *''Flora & Fauna'' (1996) {{ISBN|0-919417-44-2}} *{{cite book| title=The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5l29KiCpbYC&q=Diana+Brebner| publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP| year=2004| isbn=978-0-7735-2835-2 }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130125003849/http://www.gooselane.com/blog/?p=142 "Arc Magazine Contest Deadline and a Reading", ''branta'']
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