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The 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 14, 1996. English French {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards Governor Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Fiction
The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English."Governor General's Literary Awards" '''', May 27, 2007. It is one of fourteen , seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. The awards was created by the |
Charles Lillard
Charles "Red" Lillard (February 26, 1944 – March 27, 1997) was an American-born poet and historian who spent much of his adult life in British Columbia and became a Canadian citizen in 1967. He wrote extensively about the history and culture of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Early life and education Lillard was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska. His parents made a living from fishing. Lillard attended the University of British Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts.Charles Lillard's entry in Career Lillard published several books of po ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Gillmor
Don Gillmor is a Canadian journalist, novelist, historian and writer of children's books., and is the recipient of many awards for this journalism and fiction. Gillmor's writing has appeared in '' Saturday Night'', ''The Globe and Mail'', ''The Toronto Star'', ''Rolling Stone'', '' GQ'', ''National Geographic'', ''Toronto Life'' and ''The Walrus'', where he worked as senior editor. He also served on the faculty of the Literary Journalism Program at the Banff Centre. Gillmor's magazine writing has earned him three gold and seven silver Canadian National Magazine Awards, and he has been called "one of Canada’s most celebrated profile writers". In 2014, he won a National Newspaper Award for an article on baby boomers and suicide. Gillmor is the author of three works of fiction: ''Kanata'' (2009), a Canadian historical epic, ''Mount Pleasant'' (2013), a comic novel about debt and ''Long Change'' (2015), which explores the life of an oilman (Gillmor worked on an oil rig in the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Chan
Gillian Chan (born 1954) is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas, Ontario. She was educated at Orange Hill Grammar School and the University of East Anglia (BEd, 1980). Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-ling's during the Christmas week a year or so after the original diary ended for the Christmas treasury from the Dear Canada series, ''A Season for Miracles: Twelve Tales of Christmas.'' On October 27, 2006, Chan competed on the television show ''Jeopardy!'', finishing in last place. Works *''Golden Girl and Other Stories'' - 1994 *'' Glory Days and Other Stories'' - 1996 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''The Carved Box'' - 2001 *''A Foreign Field'' - 2002 *''An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling (Dear Canada ''Dear Canada'' is a series of historical novels marketed at kids first published in 2001 and continuing to the present. The books are published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. They are similar to the ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Boyd (author)
David Boyd (born March 7, 1951) is a Canadian author residing in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. He is a retired English and Media teacher at Appleby College. He writes a historical fiction series on World War II, "The Reflecting Man," for adults as D.K.R. Boyd. and for children/YA readers as David Boyd. As a playwright, Boyd adapted Shakespeare's '' Macbeth'' to create Macbeth: A Multimedia Event (1995) and ''Julius Caesar'' to create Caesar: A Multimedia Event (2005). In 1996, his Young Adult novel ''Bottom Drawer'' was nominated for a Governor General's Award. He also writes dystopian fiction under the pseudonym of David Collins. He is the brother of economist Dr. Lorraine Eden. Bibliography * ''The Face in the Flames'' – 1989, reprinted 1998 *''Spellbound!'' – 1990, reprinted 1998 *''The Danger Beneath'' – 1990, reprinted 1998 *''Earthwatch'' – 1990, reprinted 1998 *''Looking for a Hero'' – 1993; e-book edition 2013 *''Champlain Summer'' – 1993 *''Bottom Drawer'' ... [...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] |
Paul Yee
Paul Yee (born 1 October 1956) is a Chinese-Canadian historian and writer. He is the author of many books for children, including ''Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter'', ''The Curses of Third Uncle'', ''Dead Man's Gold'', and ''Ghost Train''—winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature. In 2012, the Writers' Trust of Canada awarded Paul Yee the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People in recognition of having "contributed uniquely and powerfully to our literary landscape over a writing career that spans almost 30 years". Early life and education Paul Yee was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan in 1956 but was raised in Chinatown, Vancouver by his aunt Lilian. He describes himself as feeling "caught between two worlds" growing up, and many of his works about Chinese-Canadians reflect this tension. He attended Lord Strathcona Elementary School and Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver. Paul Yee obtained a Bachelor's and Master's degree i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Children's Literature
The Governor General's Award for English-language children's writing is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a children's book written in English. It is one of four children's book awards among the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, one each for writers and illustrators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council. In name, this award is part of the Governor General's Award program only from 1987 but there was a single award for "Juvenile" literature from 1949 to 1958, and the four present-day "Children's" awards were established in 1975 under a Canada Council name. In the event, the "Canada Council" and "Governor General's" awards have recognized writing in an English-language children's book every year from 1975. Juvenile fiction The oldest of now-14 annual Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were inaugurated in 1936. One award for a "juvenile" book was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Quan
Betty or Bettie is a name, a common diminutive for the names Bethany and Elizabeth. In Latin America, it is also a common diminutive for the given name Beatriz, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin name Beatrix and the English name Beatrice. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was more often a diminutive of Bethia. Notable people Athletes * Betty Cuthbert (1938–2017), Australian sprinter and Olympic champion * Betty Jameson (1919–2009), American Hall-of-Fame golfer and one of the founders of the LPGA * Betty McKilligan (born 1949), Canadian pairs figure skater * Betty Nuthall (1911–1983), English tennis player * Betty Pariso, American bodybuilder * Betty Stöve (born 1945), Dutch tennis player * Betty Ann Grubb Stuart (born 1950), American tennis player * Betty Uber (1906–1983), English badminton and tennis player Journalists and media personalities * Betty Elizalde (1940–2018), Argentine journalist and broadcaster * Betty Kennedy (1926–2017), Canadian br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (playwright)
Michael or Mike O'Brien may refer to: Politicians * Michael O'Brien (Fianna Fáil politician), Irish former councillor and mayor of Clonmel * Michael O'Brien (Ohio politician) (born 1955), American politician in the state of Ohio * Michael O'Brien (South Australian politician) (born 1949), Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2002– * Micheal O'Brien (Canadian politician), Retired politician, now Editor-in-chief of the global edition of Feminine-Perspective Magazine. present * Michael O'Brien (Victorian politician) (born 1971), Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2006–present * Michael H. O'Brien (1954–2018), American politician in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania * Michael J. O'Brien (born 1939), American politician in the state of Iowa * Michael John O'Brien (1851–1940), Canadian politician, railway builder, industrialist and philanthropist * Mike O'Brien (British politician) (born 1954), United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mighton
John Mighton, OC (born October 2, 1957) is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright. Education and career Mighton was born in Hamilton, Ontario on and lives in Toronto, Ontario with partner Pamela Sinha and daughter Chloe. In 1998 Mighton founded a highly successful math tutoring program. In 2002, based on the methods developed in the tutoring program, he founded JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math, a charitable organization that works to educate students in mathematics, and to promote those methods in the education system. Mighton points out that any child who learns language is capable of learning math. As a playwright, Mighton has been the recipient of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama, the Dora Award, and the Chalmers Award. His plays include ''Possible Worlds'', ''The Little Years'', ''Body & Soul'', ''Scientific Americans'', ''A Short History of Night'', and ''Half Life''. Mighton completed a Ph.D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany. Many of the plays explore the divide between the powerful and the oppressed, exploring, for example, the racism and abuse suffered by Canada's indigenous peoples, issues faced by people with disabilities, child sexual abuse and the struggle for women's rights.McNulty, Jim. "Trading her plays for politics: Dartmouth MP makes many sacrifices to lobby on behalf of disabled." Halifax ''Daily News'', July 24, 1998. Four of her plays were nominated for Governor General's Awards. ''Sisters'', which dramatizes the human devastation caused by a convent-run, native residential school, received the Labatt's Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival. Lill's adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
