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Alberta Literary Awards
The Alberta Literary Awards (ALA), administered by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, have been awarded annually since 1982 to recognize outstanding writing by Alberta authors. The awards honour fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children's literature. At the first public ALA Gala in 1994, the inaugural Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award was given to W. O. Mitchell. Alberta Literary Awards R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature The children’s literature category alternates yearly between picture and chapter books. The 2019 award is presented to an Alberta author of a children’s picture book published in 2017 or 2018. Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Awarded for a novel or collection of short fiction by an Alberta author published in the previous year. Past recipients are W. P. Kinsella, Sam Selvon, Pauline Gedge, Aritha van Herk, Mary Walters Riskin, Helen Forrester, Jacqueline Dumas, Thomas King, Greg Hollingshead, Robert Hilles, Roberta Rees, Richard Wagamese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of Alberta
The Writers' Guild of Alberta (WGA) was founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization for writers based in Alberta, Canada. It claims to be the largest provincial writers' organization in Canada, representing approximately 1,000 writers throughout the province. Location and leadership Its main office is based in Edmonton, with a southern office located in Calgary. The founding president was Rudy Wiebe. Past presidents include E. D. Blodgett, Joan Clark, Candas Jane Dorsey, Myrna Kostash, Alice Major, Suzette Mayr, George Melnyk, Darlene Quaife, Gloria Sawai, Fred Stenson (writer), Vern Thiessen and Aritha van Herk. A new president is nominated and elected at each year's AGM event. The president for the 2019-2021 year is Leslie Chivers. Programs The WGA provides professional services and development to established and emerging writers through its annual conference, mentorship program, writing retreats and youth programs. Its quarterly publication is ''WestWord'' magazine. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristjana Gunnars
Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19, 1948 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her works explore, among other themes, the 19th century Icelandic settler experience in Canada's prairie provinces. Bibliography Novels *''The Prowler'' (1989), winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award *''The Substance of Forgetting'' (1992) * ''Night Train to Nykobing'' (1998) Short stories *''The Guest House and Other Stories (''1992) *''Any Day But This'' (2004) Poetry *''One-eyed Moon Maps'' (1980) *''Settlement Poems 1'' (1980) *''Settlement Poems 2'' (1980) *''Wake-pick Poems'' (1981) *''The Axe's Edge'' (1983) *''The Night Workers of Ragnorak'' (1985) *''Exiles Among You'' (1996) *''Carnival of Longing (''1989) *''Silence of the Country'' (2002) *''Night Train to Nykøbing'' (2002) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992.Rudy Wiebe s entry in Rudy Wiebe was made an Officer of the in the year 2000. Early life Wiebe was born at Speedwell, near , in what would later become his family's chicken barn ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Bryan
Ali Bryan is a Canadian novelist, and personal trainer. Her second novel, ''"The Figgs"'', was shortlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Biography Bryan was born in Nova Scotia, where she graduated from Saint Mary's University, then studied creative writing under Paul Quarrington at Humber College, in Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca .... Her first novel, published in 2013, was titled ''Roost''. Roost's protagonist, Claudia, is a single mother, in her thirties. Her life goes out of control following the unexpected death of her mother. Bryan was a finalist in the 2010 CBC Canada Writes literary contest. She came third in the 2012 CBC Canada Writes Literary Triathlon. ''Roost'' won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and was short-listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Van Camp
Richard Van Camp (born September 8, 1971) is a Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ writer of the Dene nation from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada."About a boy: Richard Van Camp and The Lesser Blessed" '''', November 2012. He is best known for his 1996 novel '' The Lesser Blessed'', which was adapted into a film by director in 2012. Life and wo ...
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Todd Babiak
Todd Babiak is a Canadian writer and entrepreneur living in Tasmania. Career He is CEO of Brand Tasmania, a co-founder of Story Engine and Places are People, and has published several bestselling novels. His first novel, ''Choke Hold'', was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and a winner of the Henry Kreisel Award, and his second novel, ''The Garneau Block'', was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the City of Edmonton Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Alberta Book Award for best novel. ''The Garneau Block'' was later adapted for the stage by Canadian actress and playwright Belinda Cornish, premiering in September 2021 at the Citadel Theatre, in Edmonton. ''The Book of Stanley'' is in development as a television series. His screenplay ''The Great One'', co-authored with Jason Margolis, won a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship. His fourth novel, ''Toby: A Man'', was published by HarperCollins in January 2010. It was shortlisted for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Davie
Michael Davie (15 January 1924 – 7 December 2005) was a British journalist. Born in Cranleigh, Surrey, Davie was the last of three children born to the head of a firm of stockbrokers. He was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford, where he began reading English, but after war service in the Royal Navy, returned to study History. Before he graduated, Davie was offered a job as diplomatic correspondent by David Astor, editor of ''The Observer'', but the post had been filled by the time he had left Oxford University. After a brief period at the ''Manchester Evening News'', he joined ''The Observer'' in 1950 as religious correspondent. Davie subsequently became the newspaper's news editor, sports writer and editor of the colour supplement when it was first published in 1965. Close to Astor, he was appointed deputy editor of the newspaper, a position he retained until 1969. He then returned to writing, still on ''The Observer'' staff, where he edited the 'Notebook' fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaspreet Singh
Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and chemist. Life and early career He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. From August 2006 until June 2007, Singh was a resident in the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary. He served as the 2016–17 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. Works Singh is the author of the novel ''Chef'' (2008 Véhicule Press/2010 Bloomsbury), and '' Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir'', a collection of linked stories. Both books deal with the damaged landscapes of Kashmir, especially Siachen Glacier. His play, ''Speak, Oppenheimer'', written for Montreal's Infinite Theatre, involves three physicists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. He contributed an essay to the anthology '' AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India'' (2008). His second novel, ''Helium'', was published in 2013. It tells the story of a yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Jakober
Marie Jakober (August 27, 1941 – March 26, 2017) was a Canadian novelist. Based in Calgary, Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ..., Jakober wrote historical fiction and fantasy. ''Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua'' (1985) won the Writer's Guild of Alberta Novel Award in 1985. She received the 2002 Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for her novel ''Only Call Us Faithful'' (2002). Her second Civil War novel, ''Sons of Liberty'', won the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the Alberta Book Awards in 2006. Bibliography *''The Mind Gods: A Novel of the Future'' (London: Macmillan, 1976; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976) *''Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua'' (Vancouver: New Star, 1985) *''A People in Arms'' (Vancouver: New Star, 1987) *''High K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Anderson (Canadian Writer)
Paul Anderson may refer to: Entertainment * Paul Lewis Anderson (1880–1956), American historical novelist and photographer * Paul 'Trouble' Anderson (1959–2018), British DJ * Paul W. S. Anderson (born 1965), British film director * Paul Thomas Anderson (born 1970), American film director * Paul Anderson (actor) (born 1978), British actor * Paul Anderson, author of '' Hunger's Brides'' * Paul Anderson, producer of the musical group The Piano Guys * Paul Anderson (cartoonist) (1924-2015), American cartoonist, known for the comic strip Marmaduke, created by his father Brad Politics * Paul Anderson (Minnesota state representative) (born 1951), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives * Paul Anderson (Minnesota state senator) (born 1973) * Paul Anderson (Nevada politician) (born 1970), member of the Nevada Assembly Sports * Paul Anderson (weightlifter) (1932–1994), American weightlifter * Paul Anderson (sailor) (1935–2022), British sailor * Paul Anderson (cricketer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Awards and recognition * 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, ''Darkness and Silence'' * 2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Witness Ghost'' * 2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Memory Orchard'' * 2004: Alberta Literary Awards, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, ''The Paperboy's Winter'' (PDF document) * 2008: |