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1992 Governor General's Awards ...
Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. English French Language {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards 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 distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General Of Canada
The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, the United Kingdom. The , on the advice of Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry on the Government of Canada in the 's name, performing most of constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an indefinite period—known as serving ''at Majesty's pleasure''—though five years is the usual length of time. Since 1959, it has also been traditional to alternate between francophone and anglophone officeholders—although many recent governors general have been bilingual. The office began in the 17th century, when the French crown appointed governors of the colony of Canada. Following the British conquest of the colony, the British monarch appointed governors of the Province of Quebec (later the Canadas) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Lush
Laura Lush (born 1959) is a Canadian poet and short story writer. She is most noted for her 1992 poetry book ''Hometown'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1992 Governor General's Awards. She has since published the poetry collections ''Fault Line'' (1997) and ''The First Day of Winter'' (2003), and the short story collection ''Going to the Zoo'' (2003)."Lush prose: Poetic style enhances loopy humour". ''Victoria Times-Colonist The ''Times Colonist'' is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed by the Sept. 2, 1980 merger of the ''Victoria Daily Times'', established in 1884, and the ''British Colonist'' (later the ''Daily Co ...'', February 23, 2003. References 1959 births 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian short story writers Canadian women poets Canadian women short story writers Writers from Ontario Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist for ''The Globe and Mail''. Career Ibbitson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English. After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being ''Mayonnaise'', which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983. In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young adult fiction, including the science fiction novel ''Starcrosser'' (1990). He also wrote two full-length novels, ''1812: Jeremy's War'' and ''The Night Hazel Came to Town''. ''The Landing'' followed in 2008 - a winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Apart from the latter Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including a Governor General's Award nomination for ''1812''. ''Haz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Buffie
Margaret Buffie is a Canadian young adult fiction writer. Buffie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Sparling Elementary School, Sargeant Park Junior High, and Daniel McIntyre High School. Buffie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. She worked as a visual artist before beginning a writing career in 1985. Her first manuscript, a novel entitled ''Who is Frances Rain?'' (1987), was published by Kids Can Press in Toronto. This story about a girl who has antique glasses which allow her to see ghosts is considered a "Canadian classic." Her latest novel, ''Winter Shadows'', was published on October 12, 2010, by Tundra Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Buffie is a recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award Body of Work Award (For Writing Inspirational to Canadian Youth). She is also a recipient of the Young Adult Canadian Book Award; is a two-time winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People award and shortlisted for the Governor Generals Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Johnston (writer)
Julie Johnston is a Canadian writer. She was raised in Smiths Falls, Ontario, in the Ottawa Valley. She studied at the University of Toronto. She now lives in Peterborough, Ontario. Her first two novels for young adults won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Works *''Hero of Lesser Causes'' (1992) *'' Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me'' (1994) *''The Only Outcast'' (1998) *''Love Ya Like a Sister: A Story of Friendship from the Journals of Katie Ouriou'' (1999) *''In Spite of Killer Bees'' (2001) *''Susannah's Quill'' (2004) *''As if by Accident'' (2005) *'' Little Red Lies'' (2013) *''Two Moons in August'' Awards *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 Ge ... (1992, 1994) *Na ... [...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] |
Dianne Warren
Dianne Warren (born August 28, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer. Background Warren was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Her mother grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and worked in Ottawa during the 1940s. Her father, a World War II veteran, was from a small lumber town in the Ottawa Valley. Her parents met in Ottawa after the war, married, had two babies, and then moved to Saskatchewan. Although the family travelled back to Ottawa every few years to visit that side of the family, the extended family that Dianne grew up with was her mother's family, who remain farm and ranch people. She spent as much time as possible with her grandparents on the farm and grew up loving the prairie landscape. She studied art at university and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. She continued writing during those years, although in isolation and without the benefit of mentors or writing friends. About the time that she turned thirty, she decided she needed to learn more abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Thompson
Judith Clare Thompson, OC (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, The Epilepsy Ontario Award, The B'nai B'rith Award, the Dora, the Chalmers, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (a global competition for the best play written by a woman in the English Language) and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, both for Palace of the End, which premiered at Canadian Stage, and has been produced all over the world in many languages. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University and, in Nov. 2016, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Early years Thompson was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of William Robert Thompson, a geneticist and the head of the Department of Psychology at Queen's University at Kingston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Carley
Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor General's Award (''Writing with our Feet'', finalist), The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International Radio Festival Award. He was a founder of Friends of Freddy, an association for the appreciation of the Freddy the Pig series of books of Walter Brooks. He was an editor of ''The Kawartha Sun'', the founding editor of the Playwrights Guild of Canada magazine, ''CanPlay'', and also editor of ''Scirocco Drama'' in the late 1990s. Before that, beginning in 1990, Carley was the radio drama script editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and he continues to write for the CBC. He was script editor for the Wendy Lill drama series ''Backbencher'', an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Verdecchia
Guillermo Verdecchia (born December 7, 1962) is a Canadian theatre artist. Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. Verdecchia received an undergraduate degree in theatre at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, and a master's degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Verdecchia received the 1993 Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play ''Fronteras Americanas''. He is a four-time winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and a recipient of various other awards for acting as well as sundry film festival awards for ''Crucero/Crossroads'', the short film, made with Ramiro Puerta, based on ''Fronteras Americanas''. His work engages questions of representation, political power, and cultural theory. Verdecchia is a sessional instructor at Algoma University and has been writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks (born 23 June 1958) is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He is well known in the Toronto theatre scene for his innovative productions and script-writing collaborations. Early life Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from the drama program at University College. Career Brooks has collaborated in the creation of several solo shows by Daniel MacIvor, including ''House'', ''Here Lies Henry'', ''The Lorca Play'' and ''Monster''."Two Daniels’ latest collaboration conjures the dead" ''Toronto Star'', November 28, 2016. Karen Fricker. He has also collaborated with |
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] |
