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Canadian Author
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also * List of Canadian poets * List of Canadian playwrights * List of Canadian short story writers * List of Canadian science fiction authors * List of Canadian historians * List of Canadian women writers in French * List of Quebec writers * List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec * List of famous Canadians * Lists of authors Further reading * * External linksIntroduction - Canadian Writers- Library and Archives Canada Canadian Writers - Athabasca University {{Lists of writers by nationality Writers Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Literature
Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both geographically and historically, representing Canada's diversity in culture and region. Canadian literature is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively. The earliest Canadian narratives were of travel and exploration. This progressed into three major themes that can be found within historical Canadian literature; nature, frontier life, Canada's position within the world, all three of which tie into the garrison mentality, a condition shared by all colonial era societies in their beginnings, but sometimes erroneously thought to apply mainly to Canada because a Canadian intellectual coined the term. In recent decades Canada's literature has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Adams
Evan Tlesla Adams (born November 15, 1966) is an Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film ''Smoke Signals'' and Seymour Polatkin in the 2002 film ''The Business of Fancydancing''. Career Entertainment He won an Independent Spirit Award in 1999 for Best Debut Performance for his role in ''Smoke Signals'', and a Los Angeles Outfest award in 2002 for his role in ''Fancydancing''. In Canada, Adams has acted primarily in television, including roles in ''The Beachcombers'', "Lost in the Barrens" ''Da Vinci's Inquest'', ''Neon Rider'', '' These Arms of Mine'', ''Da Vinci's City Hall'', ''The L Word'', and ''Wolf Canyon'', and stage roles in ''Lear'' and ''Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing''. He appeared in the 1990 made for TV movie "Lost in the Barrens". He also appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in Canada. She lives and works at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve on the Saugeen Peninsula in southwestern Ontario, and in Ottawa, Ontario. Biography A cultural worker with an activist bent, Kateri has initiated many important projects on behalf of Indigenous writers of Turtle Island (North America) and active collaborations with artists and publishers in New Zealand and Australia. A spoken word artist and literary performer as well as poet, writer, editor, and communications consultant, Ms. Akiwenzie-Damm works both behind the scenes and before live audiences. In 1993, she established Kegedonce Press, one of very few literary publishing houses devoted to indigenous writers. It continues to produce anthologies and single-author books of distinction. Acclaimed Canadian authors Basil H. Johnston (Ojibway), Marilyn Dumont (Métis), and Gregory Scofield (Métis) are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Akenson
Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American historian and author. Notably prolific, he has written at least 23 book-length, scholarly monographs, 3 jointly-authored scholarly books, 6 works of fiction and historical fiction, and 55 scholarly articles. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society (UK). He is also a Molson Prize Laureate, awarded for a lifetime contribution to Canadian culture (other winners include Margaret Atwood, Marshall McLuhan, and Glenn Gould). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 1992 he won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, then the richest non-fiction book prize in the world. Akenson received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Distinguished University Professor and Douglas Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was simultaneously Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terre Haute (novel)
''Terre Haute'' is a 1989 novel by Will Aitken.Gregory Woods, ''A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition''. Yale University Press, 1999. . ''Terre Haute'' describes a year in the life of fourteen-year-old Jared McCaverty, a bright and attractive young boy going through puberty in Terre Haute, Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s .... Jared, who comes from a wealthy family, is many ways a happy boy, but he is overweight, socially awkward, and gay. Plot summary Jared McCaverty has a sexual encounter with a friend, Paul Herzog, but his father finds out and beats him. He buys a gay magazine, but his father finds it and cannot accept his son's sexual inclinations. He then has another homosexual episode with Randy Sparks, a school friend, but his father discov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Aitken
Will Aitken is an American-Canadian novelist, journalist and film critic.Richard Burnett"Montreal author Will Aitken revives Death in Venice". ''Xtra!'', January 26, 2012. Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, he has been based in Montreal, Quebec since moving to that city to attend McGill University in 1972. In Montreal, he was a cofounder of the city's first LGBT bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1973. He has also worked as an arts journalist and film critic for a variety of media outlets,"Aitken goes big on Japan" '''', September 21, 2000. including the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelley Aitken
Kelley Aitken is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and art instructor. Aitken was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Fine Arts. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled ''Love in a Warm Climate(1998), was short-listed for the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Priz Aitken co-edited, and contributed to, ''First Writesan anthology published in 2005. Aitken lives in Toronto, 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 .... Bibliography *''Love in a Warm Climate''. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1998. *''First Writes''. Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre, 2005. (edited with Susan Goyette and Barbara Scott) Living people Canadian women short story writers Writers from Vancouver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Aitken
Kate Aitken (April 6, 1891 – December 11, 1971) was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Sometimes known by the nickname Mrs. A,"A Canadian Martha?" ''Toronto Globe & Mail'', January 3, 1996, p. A14 she was one of the most famous female broadcasters of her era.''One of Canada's best-known radio voices and a traveller who covered more than 2 million miles'', ''The Globe and Mail''. December 13, 1971. In addition, she was known as an expert on cooking; she gave many public talks and demonstrations, and her advice was relied upon by millions of homemakers.Susan Sampson. "A Finger in Every Pie." ''Toronto Star'', June 2, 2004, p. D4. Early life Kate Aitken, born Kate May Scott, was the fifth of seven children of Anne (née Kennedy) and Robert Scott; she was born in the village of Beeton, Ontario. Her parents owned a general store; years later, in 1956, she wrote a memoir about her childhood in Beeton, called ''Never a Day So Bright''. From the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freda Ahenakew
Freda Ahenakew (February 11, 1932 – April 8, 2011) was a Canadian author and academic of Cree descent. Ahenakew was considered a leader in Indigenous language preservation and literary heritage preservation in Canada. She was a sister-in-law to the political activist David Ahenakew. Biography Freda Ahenakew was born in Ahtahkakoop, Saskatchewan, the second of eight children. Her parents were Edward and Annie ( Bird) Ahenakew.Ahenakew, Freda Saskatchewan Archival Information Network She spent some of her teenage years living at St. Alban's Residential School in Prince Albert, and attended the Prince Albert Collegiate Institute. Ahenakew married Harold Greyeyes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an author who has been living in Canada since 1970. Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasionally appears with the Bread & Puppet Theater of Vermont. Her works have been translated into Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian and Korean. Her books include ''Silence Like Blood,'' (''Le Silence comme le sang'' 1997), which was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award, and ''La Dot de Sara''. See also *Canadian literature *Canadian poetry *List of Canadian poets *List of Canadian writers This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X ... Prix Alain-Grandbois References Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, sometimes credited as Nathan Adler, is a Canadian writer of horror fiction. He is most noted for his 2020 short story collection ''Ghost Lake'', which was the winner in the English fiction category at the 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards.Vicky Qiao"Nathan Adler, Bevann Fox and jaye simpson among winners for 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards" CBC Books, June 22, 2021. Of Jewish and Anishinaabe descent, he is a member of the Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation. He studied English literature and Native studies at Trent University, integrated media at OCAD University, and creative writing at the University of British Columbia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Adderson
Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published four novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers. Personal life and career Caroline Adderson was born on September 9, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta. She studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving a degree in education in 1982. Her first short story collection, ''Bad Imaginings'' (1993), was nominated for the Governor General's Award and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second novel, ''Sitting Practice'' (2003), also won the award. Adderson has won the CBC Literary Competition three times. In 2006, she received the Marian Engel Award, given annually to an outstanding Canadian female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work. Awards and honours *1993 – Nominee, Governor General's Award, for ''Bad Imaginings'' *1994 – Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for ''Bad Imaginings'' *1999 – Shortlisted, Rogers Writers' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
