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David Homel
David Homel (born 1952) is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator.Ian McGillis"Montreal's David Homel counsels self-forgiveness in new memoir" ''Montreal Gazette'', April 23, 2021. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for ''Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?'', his translation of Dany Laferrière's ''Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?'', and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for ''Fairy Ring'', their translation of Martine Desjardins' ''Le Cercle de Clara''. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Homel moved to Canada in 1975, first taking a master's at the University of Toronto before settling in Montreal in 1980.Janice Kennedy, "A Novel Love; Two writers live happily ever after - together". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 7, 1988. He is married to children's writer Marie-Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards. Categories They are currently presented in seven literary categories: * Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, * Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction * A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry * Concordia University First Book Prize * QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature * Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year) * 3Macs ''Carte Blanche'' Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal ''Carte Blanche''. A Community Award is also frequently presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community. The awards have been presented annually since 1988. Winners by year 1988 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Lamothe
Serge Lamothe (born February 15, 1963) is a French-Canadian writer. Education He holds a master's degree in literature from Laval University in Quebec City. Career He was a member of the board and vice president, in 2005, of UNEQ (Quebec Writers Union). From 2006 to 2015, he was a member of the board of the FIL (International Festival of Literature) in Montreal, Canada. Theater *''Le Prince de Miguasha'', radio play, Radio-Canada, 2003. *''Rapports intimes'', translation & adaptation of '' Intimate Exchanges'' by Alan Ayckbourn, 2003. *''Le Procès de Kafka'', stage adaptation of ''The Trial'', by Franz Kafka, 2004. *''Le fusil de chasse'', stage adaptation of ''The Hunting Gun'', by Yasushi Inoue, 2010. *''Kinkaku-ji'', stage adaptation of ''The Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' by Yukio Mishima, directed by Amon Miyamoto, Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Tokyo, and Lincoln Center, NYC, 2011. *''Waiting for Godot'', by Samuel Beckett, dramatist, directed by François Girard, Théâtre d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Bourguignon
Stéphane is a male French given name an equivalent of Stephen/Steven. Notable people with this given name include: *Stéphane Adam (born 1969), French footballer *Stéphane Agbre Dasse (born 1989), Burkinabé football player *Stéphane Allagnon, French film director and screenwriter * Stéphane Antiga (born 1976), French volleyball player *Stéphane Artano * Stéphane Audran *Stéphane Augé (born 1974), French road racing cyclist *Stéphane Auger (born 1970), Canadian hockey referee *Stéphane Auvray *Stéphane Azambre *Stéphane Bancel (born 1972/1973), French billionaire businessman *Stéphane Beauregard (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey player *Stéphane Belmondo *Stéphane Bergeron *Stéphane Bernadis *Stéphane Besle *Stéphane Biakolo *Stéphane Billette * Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra (1937–2007), Congolese politician *Stéphane Bonneau *Stéphane Bonnes *Stéphane Bonsergent *Stéphane Borbiconi * Stéphane Boudin *Stéphane Breitwieser *Stéphane Bruey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Côté (writer)
Denis Côté (born November 16, 1973) is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world. Life and career Côté was born in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, Canada. He studied film at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal and founded nihilproductions around 1994. He made a number of short films, including ''Kosovolove'' (2000) and ''La sphatte'' (2003). He has also been a film critic on radio, at ici magazine from 1999 to 2005, and vice-president of the Quebec association of film critics (''Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma'', or AQCC). In 2005, his first feature film, '' Drifting States (Les états nordiques)'', won the Golden Leopard - Video at the Locarno International Film Festival (in a tie with '' The Masseur''), as well as the Woosuk Award (Indie Vision) at the Jeonju International Film Festival. His 2007 film '' Our Private Lives (Nos vies privées)'' was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Simard
Francis Simard, (June 2, 1946 – January 10, 2015) was a Quebec nationalist and convicted murderer. Simard was a member of the Chenier Cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), a group dedicated to the creation of an independent Marxist state out of the Canadian province of Quebec. Members of the group were responsible for the events known as the October Crisis. As a member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale political party, he met Paul Rose and the two became involved in revolutionary activities in 1969 when Simard campaigned for the development of the French language in McGill University, one of Montreal's English-language universities. During what became known as the October Crisis, on October 5, 1970, members of the FLQ's Liberation Cell kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner James Cross from his Montreal home as part of a violent attempt to overthrow the elected government and to establish a Marxist Quebec state independent of Canada. On Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Max
John Max (John Porchawka, 23 September 1936 – 5 May 2011) was a Canadian photojournalist, photography teacher, and art photographer. He is recognized for his use of the narrative sequence, his expressive portraiture, and his intensely personal, subjective approach to photography by a number of critics, curators, artists, and photographers in Canada and abroad. It has also been the source of a number of responses and homages. Robert Frank said about him "When I think of Canadian photography, his name comes up first." Work Max grew up in Montréal, where he participated in the visual arts scene of the city during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and published numerous photo-essays for newspapers and magazines. He also maintained close ties to the American photography scene. Max was championed during the 1960s and 1970s by the National Film Board of Canada, through its Still Photography Division, and the National Gallery of Canada, through a variety of exhibition and publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Journal
The ''Edmonton Journal'' is a daily newspaper in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Postmedia Network. History The ''Journal'' was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old ''Edmonton Bulletin''. Within a week, the ''Journal'' took over another newspaper, ''The Edmonton Post'', and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party of Canada (historical), Conservative Party against the ''Bulletins stance for the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party. In 1912, the ''Journal'' was sold to the William Southam, Southam family. It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International. The ''Journal'' was subsequently sold to Canwest in 2000, and finally came under its current ownership, Postmedia Network Inc., in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherbrooke Record
''The Record'' is the only daily (Monday–Friday) English language newspaper based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It serves the Eastern Townships region of that province. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the Montreal Gazette, which serves the anglophone community in Montreal. Launched on February 9, 1897, by businessman Leonard Channell and originally known as the ''Sherbrooke Daily Record'', it is one of the two last surviving English-language daily newspapers in the French-speaking province, the other being the much larger ''Montreal Gazette''. For the past several years, ''The Record'' has been a daily community newspaper for the anglophone minority in the Eastern Townships, without comprehensive coverage of national and world news. "Talk", or "Talk of the Townships", a weekly television, arts and cultural insert, appears every Friday. Periodic sections focus on individual communities and events within the Record's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Josef Grubisic
Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963) is a Canadian author, editor, and sessional lecturer of English at the University of British Columbia. Education He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Victoria (B.A., M.A.) and completed his PH.D. from the University of British Columbia. Career Grubisic has edited the anthology of gay male pulp fiction, which is a collection of stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream. He has also co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers featuring acclaimed writers such as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai. This anthology aims to redress an absence which the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction. Grubisic's debut novel, ''The Age of Cities'', was published in 2006 and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Set predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain evol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax Daily News
''The Daily News'' was a tabloid newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that was published from 1974 until ceasing operations in February 2008. History ''The Daily News'' owed its existence to David Bentley, who, along with his wife Diana and Patrick and Joyce Sims, founded The Great Eastern News Company Ltd. in 1974 and started publishing a weekly broadsheet named ''The Bedford-Sackville News''. This paper focused on the suburban communities of Bedford and Lower Sackville within the Halifax-Dartmouth metropolitan area. The Great Eastern News Company Ltd. was initially published out of Bentley's home but a press was acquired in 1978 and the company moved into a new building. A year later the format changed to a tabloid and began publishing six days a week as ''The Bedford-Sackville Daily News''. The paper gained a reputation for printing stories not covered by its competition, ''The Chronicle Herald'', some of which were considered sensational. In 1981, Bentley's company moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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