Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

He is best known for his 2005 novel Nikolski, which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated English editions.

[7] It marked a new wave of Quebec literature with appeal to an international audience and fresh ideas no longer drawing comparisons to other twentieth-century French-Canadian works.

[9] In 2014, Dickner and Dominique Fortier published Révolutions, a collaborative project for which they each wrote a short piece each day for a year based on a word chosen from the French Republican Calendar.

[5] Dickner's books often feature characters with peculiar fixations, like the end of the world in Tarmac, or shipping containers in Six degrés de liberté.