Valérie Bah is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2025 for her debut novel Subterrane.Nicole Thompson, "Valérie Bah wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for 'Subterrane'". Victoria Times-Colonist, June 6, 2025. The book was published by Véhicule Press in 2024.Dani Carter, "Sublingual Information". Montreal Review of Books, October 30, 2024.
In 2020, Bah and Tatiana Zinga Botao collaborated on Sol, a short documentary about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black Canadian women, as part of the National Film Board of Canada's The Curve film series.Fanny Bourel, "7 documentaires portés par le regard de personnes noires à voir en ligne". Ici Radio-Canada, February 21, 2021.
She published the French-language short story collection Les Enragé.e.s in 2021.Samuel Larochelle, "Valérie Bah, donne une voix aux enragé.e.s". Fugues, September 3, 2021. The Rage Letters, an English translation by Kama La Mackerel, was published by Metonymy Press in 2023,Shazia Hafiz, "The Rage Letters". Quill & Quire, November 2023. and received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for Transgender Literature at the 36th Lambda Literary Awards in 2024.Michael Schaub, "Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards Revealed". Kirkus Reviews, March 29, 2024.
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