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2009 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles were announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry). ''Toronto Star'', October 14, 2009. Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a copy of their book bound by Montreal bookbinder Lise Dubois. English French References External links Governor General's Awards {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards 2009 awards in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award
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] |
David Zieroth
Dale Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba) . is a poet. He won the in 1999 for ''How I Joined Humanity at Last'', and the |
Shelley Hrdlitschka
Shelley most often refers to: * Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), a major English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley * Mary Shelley (1797–1851), an English novelist and the wife of Percy Shelley * Shelley (name), a given name and a surname Shelley may also refer to: Film and television * ''Shelley'' (film), a 2016 Danish film * ''Shelley'' (TV series), a British sitcom that first aired in 1979 * Shelley (''American Horror Story''), a character on ''American Horror Story'' Music * Shelley (musician) (Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith, born 1988), a German-born American musician * Shelley (band) or Orlando, a British 1990s band Places * Shelley, Victoria, a former town in the Shire of Towong, Australia ** Shelley railway station, Victoria, a closed station * Shelley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth * Shelley, British Columbia, Canada * Shelley, Essex, England * Shelley, Suffolk, England * Shelley, West Yorkshire, England ** Shelley railway station * Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Pignat
Caroline Pignat is an Irish Canadian author and English teacher. Biography Caroline Pignat is a graduate of University of Ottawa. Her work has been published in magazines, including ''Highlights for Children'', ''Clubhouse'' and ''Clubhouse Jr.'', ''Storyteller'', ''Guideposts'', ''Guideposts for Kids'', ''Living Faith for Kids'', ''Capital Parent'', ''The Word Among Us'', and ''Focus on the Family''. She wrote the family activities booklets, A Circle of Love (November 2006) and In the Presence of the Lord (November 2007). Pignat's first young adult novel Egghead was published in 2008. Egghead is Will Reid, the target of Shane, the Grade 9 bully. In 2009 Pignat won her first Governor General's Award for her second young adult A young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence. Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages of human development significantly influencing the definition of ... ... [...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] |
Michael Nathanson (director)
Michael Nathanson is a Canadian playwright and theatre director, who was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for his play ''Talk''. Nathanson's other plays have included ''Next'', ''The Seducer’s Diary'', ''One of Ours'', ''No Offense'', ''City of Destiny'' and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's ''Ivanov'' with the setting transported to Winnipeg. He served as artistic director of the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre from 2006 to 2014. '' Canadian Jewish News
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Hannah Moscovitch
Hannah Moscovitch (born June 5, 1978) is a Canadian playwright who rose to national prominence in the 2000s. She is best known for her plays ''East of Berlin'', ''This Is War'', "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story", and '' Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes'', for which she received the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language drama. Life and career Today based in Toronto and Halifax, she was born in Ottawa. Her father, Allan Moscovitch, is a social policy professor at Carleton University. Her mother, Julie White, is a labour researcher. Both have long been active in left wing politics. Moscovitch's father is Jewish, of Romanian and Ukrainian background, while her mother is from a Christian background (of English and Irish ancestry). Moscovitch was "raised as an atheist", and has said that there is "implicitly Jewish sensibility" to her plays. She studied at the National Theatre School in the acting stream. Moscovitch gained considerable notice for two short plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan MacLeod
Joan MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright.Joan MacLeod Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, 2013. She is best known for her award-winning plays of the 1990s, particularly ''Amigo's Blue Guitar'' (1990) and ''The Hope Slide'' (1993). Raised in North Vancouver, MacLeod studied creative writing at the and the . She later joined the playwrights unit at the |
Beverley Cooper
Beverley Cooper is a Canadian actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright who works in film, radio, television, and theatre. Acting Cooper trained in acting and graduated from Studio 58 in Vancouver in 1979. In 1982, ''Toronto Star'' critic Gina Mallet named Cooper Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in Paul Gross's ''Dead of Winter'', which had its premiere at the Toronto Free Theatre in October 1982. Cooper went on to initiate such notable roles as Juliet in Ann-Marie MacDonald's ''Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'', a Canadian feminist theatre classic first produced in 1988 by Toronto's Nightwood Theatre, and Fedoysa in the premiere of George F. Walker's award-winning play '' Nothing Sacred''. Writing Cooper is most well-known as a playwright. She graduated from the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Guelph in 2013. She has written numerous original pieces and adaptations for CBC Radio Drama. She worked as story editor on the award-winning se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Loring
Kevin Loring (born November 24, 1974) is a Canadian playwright and actor. As a playwright, he won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, and was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, for Where the Blood Mixes' in 2009. His 2019 play, Thanks for Giving', was short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Drama. In June 2021 Kevin Loring received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Arts. As an actor, his credits include roles in the television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', ''Arctic Air'' and '' Health Nutz'', and the film ''Pathfinder'', as well as stage roles including Michel Tremblay's Saint Carmen of the Main', George Ryga's ''The Ecstasy of Rita Joe'' and Edmund in an all-First Nations production of William Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' at the National Arts Centre in 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided. Because the award is presented for plays published in print, a play's eligibility for the award can sometimes be several years later than its eligibility for awards, such as the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play or the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, which are based on the theatrical staging."Plays at the G-Gs: better late than never". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 22, 2005. Titles which compile several works by the playwright into a single volume may also be nominated for or win the award. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple winners and nominees 2 Wins * Catherine Banks * John Mighton * Colleen Murphy * Morris Panych * Sharon Pollock * Jordan Tannahill * Judith Thompson * George F. Walker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmine Starnino
Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editor. Biography He was born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award. His second collection ''Credo'' (2000) won the 2001 Canadian Authors Associate Prize for Poetry and the 2001 David McKeen Award for Poetry. He has also written ''A Lover's Quarrel'' (2004), a book of essays on Canadian poetry, and ''With English Subtitles'' (2004), a third collection of poems, which won a Bressani Award and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Starnino's fourth collection, ''This Way Out'' (2009), was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry and, again, won the A.M. Klein prize. Starnino went on to publish ''Lazy Bastardism'' (2012), a collection of essays and reviews, and ''Leviathan'' (2016) a book of poems. His most recent book, published in 2020, ''Dirty Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
