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1944 Governor General's Awards
The 1944 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the ninth rendition of the Governor General's Awards, Canada's annual national awards program which then comprised literary awards alone. The awards recognized Canadian writers for new English-language works published in Canada during 1944 and were presented in 1945. There were no cash prizes. As every year from 1942 to 1948, there two awards for non-fiction, and four awards in the three established categories, which recognized English-language works only. Winners * Fiction: Gwethalyn Graham, ''Earth and High Heaven'' * Poetry or drama: Dorothy Livesay, ''Day and Night'' * Non-fiction: Dorothy Duncan, ''Partner in Three Worlds'' * Non-fiction: Edgar McInnis, ''The War: Fourth Year'' References External links * * {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction; he created the Governor General's Literary Award with two award categories. Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important. Only Adrienne Clarkson created three Governor General's Awards: the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Governor General's Northern Medal, and the Governor General's Medal in Architecture (though this was effectively a continuation of the Massey Medal, first established in 1950). Governor General's Literary Awards Inaugurated in 1937 for 1936 publications in two categories, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwethalyn Graham
Gwethalyn Graham (January 18, 1913 – November 25, 1965) was a Canadian writer and activist, whose 1944 novel ''Earth and High Heaven'' was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list."Gwethalyn Graham: Two fiction awards won by Montrealer". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 26, 1965. Graham won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction twice, for her first novel ''Swiss Sonata'' in 1938, and for ''Earth and High Heaven'' in 1944. Background She was born Gwethalyn Graham Erichsen-Brown, to wealthy Toronto parents. Her father was a lawyer. At 19, she was a student at Smith College in Massachusetts, but dropped out and eloped with John McNaught, the son of her father's business partner. They divorced after two years, and Graham moved to the city of Westmount on the island of Montreal, where she became a close friend and associate of Hugh MacLennan, F. R. Scott, Thérèse Casgrain and Pierre Trudeau. Graham subsequently ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth And High Heaven
''Earth and High Heaven'' was a 1944 novel by Gwethalyn Graham. It was the first Canadian novel to reach number one on ''The New York Times'' bestseller list"Gwethalyn Graham: Two fiction awards won by Montrealer". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 26, 1965. and stayed on the list for 37 weeks, selling 125 000 copies in the United States that year. Set in Montreal, Quebec during World War II, the novel portrays a romance between Erica Drake, a young woman from a wealthy Protestant family in Westmount, and Marc Reiser, a Jewish lawyer and soldier from Northern Ontario. The young lovers are forced to confront and overcome the anti-Semitism of their society in their quest to form a lasting relationship. Literary significance & criticism Originally published by Jonathan Cape and Thomas Nelson & Sons (Canada), the most recent edition of the novel was published by Toronto's Cormorant Books in 2004. Awards and nominations ''Earth and High Heaven'' won the 1944 Governor General's Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Livesay
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.Mathews, R.D.. "Dorothy Livesay". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', 16 December 2013, ''Historica Canada''. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dorothy-livesay. Accessed 15 May 2020. Life Livesay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her mother, Florence Randal Livesay, was a poet and journalist; her father, J.F.B. Livesay was the General Manager of Canadian Press. Livesay moved to Toronto, Ontario, with her family in 1920. She graduated with a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Social Work in 1934. She also studied at the University of British Columbia and the Sorbonne. In 1931 in Paris, Livesay became a committed Communist. She joined the Communist Party of Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Duncan
Dorothy Duncan (1903 – April 22, 1957), American writer and artist, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1946 for her book ''Partner in Three Worlds''. Born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1903 to Dorothy and Edwin L. Duncan, Dorothy Duncan grew up in the Chicago area and suffered from rheumatic fever which limited her physical abilities in later years. She earned a Bachelor of Science at Northwestern University in 1925 and worked in a variety of small businesses in Chicago. During a return journey from Europe in 1932, Duncan met Hugh MacLennan on board the SS Pennland SS ''Pennland'' was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched as ''Pittsburgh'' in Ireland in 1920 and renamed ''Pennland'' in 1926. She had a succession of UK, German and Dutch owners and operators. In 1940 she was converted into a troopsh .... They married in 1936 and settled in Montreal. Duncan wrote several semi-autographical works describing her encounters with Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar McInnis
Edgar Wardell McInnis (July 26, 1899 – September 28, 1973) was a Canadian poet and historian,Edgar Wardell McInnis Biographies of Prominent Quebec and Canadian Historical Figures (), 2004. best known for his ''Oxford Periodical History of the War'', a six-volume year-by-year history of , and for ''Canada: A Political and Social History'', which was an important and influential textbook in |
1944 In Canada
Events from the year 1944 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – George VI Federal government * Governor General – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone * Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King * Chief Justice – Lyman Poore Duff (British Columbia) (until 7 January) then Thibaudeau Rinfret (Quebec) * Parliament – 19th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors *Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – John C. Bowen *Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – William Culham Woodward * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Roland Fairbairn McWilliams *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – William George Clark *Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Henry Ernest Kendall *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Albert Edward Matthews *Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Bradford William LePage *Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Eugène Fiset *Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Archibald Peter McNab Premiers *Premier of Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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