Code Noir

Name: Code Noir
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781836432098
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By Canisia Lubrin

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Winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from an award-winning poet, perfect for fans of Ocean Vuong and Tommy Orange. Code Noir: an infamous... Read More

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Dazzling, groundbreaking fiction from multi-award winner Canisia Lubrin, one of Canada's most exciting and admired new writers

Dazzling, groundbreaking fiction from multi-award winner Canisia Lubrin, one of Canada's most exciting and admired new writers

Description

Winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024

Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from an award-winning poet, perfect for fans of Ocean Vuong and Tommy Orange.

Code Noir: an infamous set of real historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France, defining the conditions of slavery in the French empire.

The original code had fifty-nine articles; Canisia Lubrin's stunning debut brings together fifty-nine linked fictions in a rare and highly original work of art that riffs on its historical antecedent.

Complemented by line-drawings by renowned visual artist Torkwase Dyson, Code Noir has taken the Canadian literary world by storm and won multiple awards. Ranging from contemporary realism to dystopian literature, futuristic fantasy to historical adventure, these stories are all linked by their characters' determination to live beyond the enclosure of official decrees, beyond the ruins of the past.

A revelation... Lubrin is one of the finest writers and thinkers of our time. - Maaza Mengiste

Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate. - Dionne Brand

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781836432098

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oneworld Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Canisia Lubrin’s poetry books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and others. Lubrin has held fellowships at the Banff Centre, Simon Fraser University, Literature Colloquium Berlin, and studied at York University and the University of Guelph, where she now coordinates the Creative Writing MFA in the School of English & Theatre Studies.

In 2021, Lubrin received a Windham-Campbell prize for poetry, and the Globe & Mail named her Poet of the Year. Code Noir: Metamorphoses is her debut fiction. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart.