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1997 Governor General's Awards
The winners of the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on November 18 by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000. English Fiction * Jane Urquhart, ''The Underpainter'' *Sandra Birdsell, ''The Two-Headed Calf'' * Matt Cohen, ''Last Seen'' * Elizabeth Hay, ''Small Change'' *Eric McCormack, ''First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women'' Poetry * Dionne Brand, ''Land to Light On'' *Marilyn Bowering, ''Autobiography'' *Patrick Friesen, ''A Broken Bowl'' * Carole Glasser Langille, ''In Cannon Cave'' * Don McKay, ''Apparatus'' Drama * Ian Ross, ''FareWel'' *Maureen Hunter, ''Atlantis'' * Lee MacDougall, ''High Life'' *Jason Sherman, ''Reading Hebron'' *Judith Thompson, ''Sled'' Non-fiction * Rachel Manley, ''Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood'' * Wade Davis, ''One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest'' * Catherine Dunphy, ''Morgentaler: A Diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Literary 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] |
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] |
Barbara Reid
Barbara Reid (born November 16, 1957) is a Canadian illustrator and author of children's books. She has been called "one of Canada's major literary figures". She was born in Toronto, Ontario and studied at the Ontario College of Art. She began her career creating illustrations for textbooks. She creates her illustrations by starting with a pencil drawing. She then builds up the image using coloured modelling clay to give it a three-dimensional effect. The result is then photographed and used as an illustration. Her work has been published in over 21 countries, including Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, China, Germany, Brazil and Thailand. In 2012, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Her Zoe series of books received a Mr. Christie's Book Award. Selected works * ''The New Baby Calf'' (1984), text by Edith Newlin Chase * ''Have You Seen Birds?'' (1986), text by Joanne Oppenheim, received the Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dippers
Dippers are members of the genus ''Cinclus'' in the bird family Cinclidae, so-called because of their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater. Taxonomy The genus ''Cinclus'' was introduced by the German naturalist Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1797 with the white-throated dipper (''Cinclus cinclus'') as the type species. The name ''cinclus'' is from the Ancient Greek word ''kinklos'' that was used to describe small tail-wagging birds that resided near water. ''Cinclus'' is the only genus in the family Cinclidae. The white-throated dipper and American dipper are also known in Britain and America, respectively, as the ''water ouzel'' (sometimes spelt "ousel") – ouzel originally meant the only distantly related but superficially similar Eurasian blackbird (Old English ''osle''). Ouzel also survives as the name of a relative of the blackbird, the ring ouzel. The genus contains five species: *White-throated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Nichol
Barbara Nichol (born c. 1956) is a Canadian writer. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of John Lang Nichol and Elizabeth Fellowes, founder of the Equinox Gallery, and was educated at Westcot Elementary School and Crofton House School in Vancouver, at Elmwood School in Ottawa, The Branson School in Ross, California and St Clare's, Oxford. She attended the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia but did not graduate from either. She has written and produced over 25 radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has written comedy and humour for radio, magazines and television. Nichol wrote scripts for the Canadian version of Sesame Street from 1985 to 1994 and worked as a script editor on the international edition of the show. In 1996, she won a Genie Award and a Golden Spire Award for Best Short Film under 15 minutes for '' The Home for Blind Women''. She was a founding editor of the Canadian magazine ''The Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Jam
Matthew Cohen (30 December 1942 – 2 December 1999) was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam. History Matt Cohen was born in Montreal, son of Morris Cohen and Beatrice Sohn, and was raised in Kingston and Ottawa. He studied political economy at the University of Toronto and taught political philosophy and religion at McMaster University in the late 1960s before publishing his first novel ''Korsoniloff'' in 1969. His fiction was translated into German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. ''The Spanish Doctor'', his biggest international success, continues to sell well in the French and Spanish markets. His greatest critical success as a writer was his final novel '' Elizabeth and After'' which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for ''The Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Heneghan
James Heneghan (7 October 1930 – 23 April 2021) was a British–Canadian author of children's and young adult novels. Heneghan grew up Liverpool, England, and emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1957, where he lived until his death on April 23, 2021. He earned Canadian citizenship in 1963. Bibliography *''Goodbye, Carleton High'' (1983) *''Promises to Come'' (1988) *''Blue'' (1991) *''Torn Away'' (1994) – winner 1995 Arthur Ellis Best Juvenile Crime Award. *''Wish Me Luck'' (1997) – nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Award Young People’s Literature – Text, winner 1998 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, winner Phoenix Award 2017. *'' The Grave'' (2000) – winner 2001 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. *''Flood'' (2002) – winner 2004 Chocolate Lily Young Readers’ Choice Award, winner 2003 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. *''Hit Squad'' (2003) *''Waiting for Sarah'' (2003) – winner of the Manitoba , image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Foggo
Cheryl Dawn Foggo is a Canadian author, documentary film director, screenwriter and playwright. Biography Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1956, she is descended from Black Oklahomans who settled in Maidstone, Saskatchewan in 1910. She also had ancestors who lived in Amber Valley, Alberta and Campsie, Alberta. Foggo knew CTrain designer Oliver Bowen when she was growing up in Calgary and her mother's bridesmaid and close friend was Violet King Henry, the first Black woman lawyer in Canada. Advocacy A keen researcher and voice for Black pioneers in Western Canada, Foggo recently served on the advisory board for ''Black on the Prairies,'' a multi-platform archive and resource initiated and curated by journalist Omayra Issa and CBC Radio host Ify Chiwetelu on CBand has also had multiple presentations of her multi-media creations: ''Ranchers, Rebels and the Righteous, Creole, Travelling On, Five Voices'' and ''Unlocking Sacred Code''s. She began work on the play '' John Ware Reclaimed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Pearson
Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Pearson (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels '' The Sky Is Falling'' (1989), ''Looking at the Moon'' (1991), and ''The Lights Go on Again'' (1993), published in 1999 as ''The Guests of War Trilogy'', and '' Awake and Dreaming'' (1996), which won the 1997 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2019.https://www.transatlanticagency.com/2019/01/07/kit-pearson-named-to-the-order-of-canada/ Agency press announcement of appointment to Order of Canada Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia. As a high-school student, she returned to Vancouver to be educated at Crofton House School. She obtained a degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta. In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Waiser
William Andrew "Bill" Waiser (born 1953) is a Canadian historian specializing in western and northern Canadian history. Career and honours Waiser grew up in Toronto but developed an interest in western Canadian history visiting his grandparents' Manitoba homestead each summer. He went on to study history at Trent University under renowned Manitoba historian W. L. Morton. Waiser completed his graduate work at the University of Saskatchewan and ultimately joined the Department of History there in 1984. He served as department head from 1995 to 1998. He was Yukon Historian for the Canadian Parks Service prior to his university appointment. He was named the university's Distinguished Researcher at the spring 2004 convocation and received the College of Arts and Science Teaching Excellence Award in 2003. He was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the province's highest honour, in 2006, and elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada the following year. Bill retired in 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blair Stonechild
Blair is an English-language name of Scottish Gaelic origin. The surname is derived from any of the numerous places in Scotland called ''Blair'', derived from the Scottish Gaelic ''blàr'', meaning "plain", "meadow" or "field", frequently a “battlefield””. The given name ''Blair'' is unisex and derived from the surname. Blair is generally a masculine name in Scotland and Canada, although it is more popular in the United States, where it is also a feminine name. A variant spelling of the given name is ''Blaire''. In 2016, in the United States, Blair was the 521st most popular name for girls born that year, and the 1807th most popular for boys. People with the surname A–E * Adam Blair (born 1986), New Zealand rugby league player *Andrew M. Blair (1818–???), American politician in Wisconsin * Andy Blair (born 1959) Scottish footballer * Anthony Blair (criminal) (1849–1879), American hanged for murder *Austin Blair (1818–1894), Governor of Michigan * B. Brian Blair (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Glavin
Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist. Career Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for '' The Daily Columbian'' (reporter, columnist and assistant city editor), ''The Vancouver Sun'' (columnist), ''The Globe and Mail'' (columnist), '' The Georgia Straight'' (columnist), and '' The Tyee'' . He has been with the ''Ottawa Citizen'' since 2011. He has contributed articles to many newspapers and magazines, including '' Canadian Geographic'', '' Vancouver Review'', '' Democratiya'', '' The National Post'', ''Seed'', '' Adbusters'', and ''Lettre International'' (Berlin). He founded and was chief editor of Transmontanus Books, an imprint of New Star Books. He was a sessional instructor in the Writing Department of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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