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1990 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10000 and a specially bound edition of his or her book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. English Language Fiction Winner: *Nino Ricci, ''Lives of the Saints'' Other Finalists: *Sky Lee, ''Disappearing Moon Café'' *Alice Munro, '' Friend of My Youth'' * Leslie Hall Pinder, ''On Double Tracks'' *Diane Schoemperlen, ''Man of My Dreams'' Poetry Winner: *Margaret Avison, ''No Time'' Other Finalists: *Dionne Brand, ''No Language Is Neutral'' * Patrick Lane, ''Winter'' Drama Winner: *Ann-Marie MacDonald, ''Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'' Other Finalists: * Audrey Butler, ''Black Friday?'' *John Mighton, ''Scientific Americans'' * George F. Walker, '' Love and Anger'' Non-fiction Winner: * Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall, ''Trudeau and Our Times'' Other Finalists: *Timothy Findley, ''Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal instrument for funding public arts, as well as for fostering and promoting the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. The Canada Council fulfills its mandate primarily through providing grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations in dance, interdisciplinary art, media arts, music, opera, theatre, writing, publishing, and the visual arts. In addition, the Canada Council administers the Art Bank, which operates art rental programs and an exhibitions and outreach program. The Canada Council Art Bank holds the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world. The Canada Council is also responsible for the secretariat for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Public L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Clarkson
Stephen Clarkson, (21 October 1937 – 28 February 2016) was one of Canada’s preeminent political scientists and a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. Life and career Clarkson's work focused mainly on two areas: the evolution of North America as a continental state, reinstitutionalized by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and two decades of neoconservatism; and the impact of globalization and trade liberalization on the Canadian state. His trilogy on these themes include ''Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism and the Canadian State'', published in 2002; ''Does North America Exist?'' (2008) and ''Dependent America? How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power'' (2011); as well as: ''Global Governance and the Semi-peripheral State: The WTO and NAFTA as Canada's External Constitution'' in ''Governing under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization". His latest projects looked at Interregionalism in the triangle Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Brierley
Jane Brierley (born 1935) is a Canadian translator, translating from French to English. She received a B.A. from Bishop's University in 1956. During the early 1960s, while her husband was completing a degree at the University of Paris, Brierley moved to Paris where she worked at an ad agency. On her return to Quebec, she earned a M.A. from McGill University in 1982 based on translating works by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé into English. Brierley also worked for the Montreal bureau of ''The Globe and Mail'' as an editorial translator. She has served as president of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. Brierley has translated books on philosophy, history and biography, children's literature and science fiction. She has won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation twice as well as appearing on the short list several more times. Selected works * ''White Desert'' (1986), translated from ''Le Désert blanc'' by , received the Félix-Antoine Sava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Tyrrell (author)
Frances Tyrrel was an seventeenth-century English courtier. She was a daughter of Edward Tyrrell of Thornton and Margaret, daughter of John Aston, and widow of Thomas Egerton of Walgrave. Her sister Bridget married the author William Sanderson or Saunderson. She was brought up in the household of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. She was connected to the Harington family, who had charge of the Princess at Coombe Abbey particularly through her uncle Sir Charles Montagu. After Elizabeth married Frederick V of the Palatinate in 1613, she went with them to Heidelberg. Tyrrell left Elizabeth's service in 1615 and travelled to London. King James discovered that she had a set of 22 ruby studded buttons which Elizabeth had given to her, and made enquiries. Elizabeth explained in a letter to Ralph Winwood that she had given Tyrrell the buttons in recompense for her service. They had been a gift to her from Anne of Denmark at York in 1603, in exchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morin (illustrator)
Paul Morin (born 14 January 1959) is a Canadian artist and children's book illustrator. Morin started painting in 1977 before working as a freelancer throughout the 1980s. In 1990, Morin began his children's book illustrative career and had contributed to twenty books by the mid-2010s. Of his illustrations, Morin won the 1990 Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration with ''The Orphan Boy''. He also received the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for ''The Orphan Boy'' in 1991 and ''The Dragon's Pearl'' in 1993. As an artist, Morin established multiple art galleries in Ontario from the late 2000s to early 2010s. He also designed the food packaging for the maple leaf cream cookies for Dare Foods. Early life and education On 14 January 1959, Morin was born in Calgary, Alberta. During his childhood, Morin lived in Montreal until he was an adult. For his post-secondary education, Morin began studying art at Grant MacEwan College. He later con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welwyn Wilton Katz
Welwyn Wilton Katz (born June 7, 1948) is a Canadian children's author who has lived in Kitchener and Toronto, Ontario. In 1994 she was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award. She currently lives in London, Ontario. She gave an interview. Works *'' The Prophecy of Tau Ridoo'' - 1982 *'' Witchery Hill'' - 1984 *'' Sun God, Moon Witch'' - 1986 *'' False Face'' - 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *'' The Third Magic'' - 1988 (winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature) *'' Whale Singer'' - 1990 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''Come Like Shadows'' - 1993 * ''Time Ghost'' (1995, Margaret K. McElderry) *'' Out of the Dark'' - 1995 (nominated for a Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual List of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. Th ...) which was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Doyle (Canadian Writer)
Brian Doyle (born 12 August 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian writer of novels and short stories. His children's books have been adapted into movies and plays. Many of his stories are drawn from his experiences growing up in the Ottawa area. He was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2005"2005 NSK Neustadt Laureate Brian Doyle" and was twice a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. His writings evoke a strong sense of location, reflecting urban Ottawa and the Gatineau Valley. ''Angel Square''"Mary Ann Alice" ''Quill & Quire'', and ''Easy Avenue'' are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Andrews
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * '' Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bedard
Michael Bedard (born June 26, 1949) is a Canadian children's writer. He was born and raised in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971 with a BA in philosophy and English. He began writing when his former high school teacher showed him works of Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot. Bedard currently lives in Toronto with his wife Martha. He has four children and five grandchildren. Works * ''Woodsedge and Other Tales: A Gathering of Tales'' (Toronto: Gardenshore Press, 1979), stories * ''Pipe and Pearls'' (Gardenshore, 1980), stories * ''A Darker Magic'' (Atheneum, 1987) * ''The Lightning Bolt'', illustrated by Regolo Ricci (1989) * ''Redwork'' (Atheneum, 1990) * ''The Tinder Box'', illus. Ricci (1990) – retelling Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinderbox" * ''The Nightingale'', illus. Ricci (1991) – retelling Andersen's "The Nightingale (fairy tale), The Nightingale" * ''Emily'', illus. Barbara Cooney (1992) – biographical fiction, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James King (author)
James King, Jim King or Jimmy King may refer to: Military *James King, 1st Lord Eythin (1589–1652), Scottish general in Swedish service and later in the English Civil War *James King (Royal Navy officer) (1750–1784), British Royal Navy captain who served under James Cook *James Wilson King (1818–1905), Chief Engineer of the United States Navy *James W. King (1842–1903), American Civil War soldier and newspaper editor *James C. King, former United States Army lieutenant general and former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 1998–2001 Politics * James G. King (1791–1853), American businessman and United States Representative from New Jersey *James King King (1806–1881), British MP for Herefordshire * James A. King (1832–1899), Scottish cabinet minister of the Republic of Hawaii *James King (Quebec politician) (1848–1900), Canadian businessman and member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec *James Harold King (1871–1949), physician and pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Graham (author)
Ron Graham is a Canadian author and journalist. Career Journalism Graham joined CBC TV in 1977 and became associate producer of the awarding-winning documentary series, The Canadian Establishment (TV series), The Canadian Establishment, a six-hour examination of the Canadian business that aired in the fall of 1980. Between 1982 and 1988 he was a regular contributor and associate editor with ''Saturday Night'' magazine in Toronto. Robert Fulford, its legendary editor, called him "our best discovery of the 1980s." His acclaimed profiles of Jean Chrétien, John Turner, and Emmett Cardinal Carter won National Magazine Awards. After 1988 Graham has worked as a freelance writer and journalist, a book editor and speechwriter, a university lecturer, and a museum curator. His writings have appeared in ''The Globe and Mail'', the ''The New York Times, New York Times'', ''Toronto Life'', ''Report on Business'' magazine, ''Canadian Art'', among other periodicals, and he has frequently pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
