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CBC Literary Prize
The CBC Literary Prize is a Canadian literary award, granted annually in three categories: short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The Award is directed towards Anglophone writers. About the prize The CBC Literary Prize is granted annually in three categories: short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. For each category, the winner receives $6,000 and a two-week writing residency at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity. Four runners-up receive $1,000 each, and all the winning works are published on the CBC Books website. The Prize was established as a partnership between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canada Council for the Arts and enRoute, Air Canada’s inflight magazine. The Canada Council for the Arts has stated that, "these awards have brought to the public's attention many talented young people who have since gone on to become established writers." Notable previous winners include writers Michael Ondaatje, W.D. Valgardson, and Gwendolyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglophone
Speakers of English are also known as Anglophones, and the countries where English is natively spoken by the majority of the population are termed the ''Anglosphere''. Over two billion people speak English , making English the largest language by number of speakers, and the third largest language by number of native speakers. England and the Scottish Lowlands, countries of the United Kingdom, are the birthplace of the English language, and the modern form of the language has been being spread around the world since the 17th century, first by the worldwide influence of England and later the United Kingdom, and then by that of the United States. Through all types of printed and electronic media of these countries, English has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and professional contexts such as science, navigation and law. The United Kingdom remains the largest English-speaking country in Europe. The United States and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Helwig
David Helwig (April 5, 1938 – October 16, 2018) was a Canadian editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. Life and career Helwig was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he spent his early childhood years. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father ran a small business repairing and refinishing furniture and buying and selling antiques. He earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1960, and an M.A. from the University of Liverpool in 1962. He subsequently taught at Queen's University from 1962 to 1974. While he at Queen's University, he also taught writing classes in Collins Bay Penitentiary. In 1972, he co-wrote ''A Book about Billie'' with an inmate of the prison. In 1971, he founded and was long-time editor of the ''Best Canadian Stories'' anthology series for Oberon Press. From 1974 to 1976, he was the literary manager for CBC Television's drama department. In 1980, he retired from teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Spears
Heather Spears (September 29, 1934 - April 15, 2021) was a Canadians, Canadian-born poet, novelist, artist, sculptor, and educator. She resided in Denmark from 1962 until her death in Copenhagen in 2021. She returned to Canada annually to conduct speaking and reading tours and to teach drawing and head-sculpting workshops. She published eleven collections of poetry, five novels, and three volumes of drawings. She specialized in drawing Preterm birth, premature infants and "infants in crisis". Early life, education, and family Heather Spears was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The daughter of Robert and Dorothea Spears, she was born to her father's second wife and had two brothers and a half-sister. She began drawing at the age of 5. She received her formal training at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and the University of British Columbia. After graduating from university, she traveled on an Emily Carr Scholarship to study art in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Scobie
Stephen Scobie (born 31 December 1943) is a Canadian poet, critic, and scholar. Born in Carnoustie, Scotland, Scobie relocated to Canada in 1965. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver after which he taught at the University of Alberta and at the University of Victoria, from which he recently retired. Scobie is a founding editor of Longspoon Press, an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of the 1980 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 ... for ''McAlmon's Chinese Opera'' (1980) and the 1986 Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism. Selected bibliography *''Babylondromat: Poems'' (1966) *''One Word Poems'' (1969) *''In the Silence of the Year'' (1971) *''The Birken Tree'' (1973) *''Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Roscoe
Patrick Roscoe is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and actor. Early years Roscoe was born in Trail, British Columbia, Canada and grew up in Tanzania, England, Port Hardy, Victoria and Vancouver. Roscoe moved from Canada to California in 1981. He later lived in Toronto, Seville, and Madrid. Career His first book, ''Beneath the Western Slopes'', was released by Stoddart in 1987. ''Birthmarks'', published in 1990,Charles Foran, "There's more to Roscoe than his unusual line of work". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 10, 1990. was noted for its unconventional subject matter, addressing themes of loneliness, desperation and survival among prostitutes, gay men and drug addicts who were living on the margins of conventional society. On the promotional tour for ''Birthmarks'', he received publicity for claims of having previously worked as a male prostitute. He later disavowed the prostitution claim, telling ''The Globe and Mail'' in 1991, "I thought, if I'm going to do he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier, OC (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian poet who holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. She has authored fifteen books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011. She is credited as Lorna Uher on some of her earlier books. Life Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1948. Crozier attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received her B.A. in 1969, and the University of Alberta where she received her M.A. in 1980. Before publishing her poems and stories, Crozier was a high school English teacher and guidance counsellor. During these years, her first poem was published in ''Grain'' magazine. She also taught creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival. Crozier has served as the writer-in-residence at the Cypress Hills Community College in 1983, the Regina Public Library, and the University of Toronto in 1989. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Windley
Carol Ann Windley (born 18 June 1947) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. Biography Carol Ann Windley was born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta. Her debut short story collection, ''Visible Light'' (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She followed in 1998 with her first novel, ''Breathing Underwater''. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection ''Home Schooling'' (2006). That book was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Windley has also taught creative writing at Malaspina University-College Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and earlier as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Strube
Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, ''Mortal'', she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, ''Alex & Zee'', in 1994. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her third novel, ''Teaching Pigs to Sing'', was a nominee for the English-language fiction award in the 1996 Governor General's Awards. Her novel ''Lemon'' was named to the longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. In 2016, she won the City of Toronto Book Award for ''On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Dewdney
Christopher Dewdney (born May 9, 1951) is a prize-winning Canadian poet and essayist. His poetry reflects his interest in natural history. His book '' Acquainted with the Night, an investigation into darkness'' was nominated for both the Charles Taylor Prize and the Governor General's Award."Author Christopher Dewdney looks at time with `Soul of the World'" ''Toronto Star'', By Vit Wagner. March 8, 2008 Early life and education Dewdney was born and grew up in . He is the son of Canadian artist and author |
Eric Nicol
Eric Patrick Nicol (December 28, 1919 – February 2, 2011) was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humour columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper ''The Province''. He also published over 40 books, both original works and compilations of his humour columns, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times. , accessed 14 July 2006. Early life Nicol was born on December 28, 1919, in Kingston, Ontario. In 1921 his family relocated to British Columbia. Nicol attended Lord Byng Secondary School and the University of British Columbia, where he studied French. In 1941, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the university. Following military service in the Second World War, Nicol returned to the University of British Columbia and earned a Master of Arts degree. He then studied at the Sorbonne in France, and lived in London, England for a few years writing comedy for the BBC. In 1951 he returned to Vancouver, where for several decade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 16 October 1946) is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The Elements of Typographic Style'', a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in June 2013. He lives on Quadra Island, near Campbell River, British Columbia (approximately 170 km northwest of Vancouver) with his wife, Jan Zwicky, a poet and philosopher. Life Bringhurst was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and British Columbia. He studied architecture, linguistics, and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Utah. He holds a BA from Indiana University (1973) and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Wreggitt
Andrew Wreggitt (born 1955) is a Canadian television writer and producer from Calgary, Alberta.Ken McGoogan, "Wreggitt keeps poetic fire burning". ''Calgary Herald'', February 21, 1998. He began his career as a writer for the television series ''The Beachcombers'' in the 1980s. In this era he was also a writer of poetry, as well as the stage play ''The Wild Guys'' in collaboration with his wife Rebecca Shaw. He later became a writer for ''North of 60'' in the 1990s, being promoted to executive story editor by 1996. Following the end of the regular series in 1997, he wrote a number of standalone television films as part of the franchise. He was subsequently a writer for the drama series ''Black Harbour'', and for several of the Joanne Kilbourn series of mystery television films. In 2002–03, he created and wrote for the detective drama '' Tom Stone''.Bonnie Malleck, "CBC premires Calgary comedy-drama". ''Hamilton Spectator'', February 25, 2002. He subsequently also wrote for the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
