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Gerald Lampert Award
The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert Gerald Lampert (c. 1924 - April 29, 1978) was a Canadian writer and educator,"Gerald Lampert: Poet founded workshops". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 2, 1978. best known as the organizer of one of Canada's first annual educational workshop series for .... Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000. Winners and nominees References {{reflist, 30em External linksLeague of Canadian Poets Canadian poetry awards First book awards Awards established in 1981 1981 establishments in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Canadian Poets
The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as the national association of professional and aspiring poets in Canada. The League counts Phyllis Webb, Robert Kroetsch, Susan McCaslin, Barry Dempster, Gay Allison, Micheline Maylor and Margaret Atwood among its membership; it provides funding for poetry readings and competitions, hosts an annual AGM, runs a series of awards, and publishes an electronic newsletter. Membership Members of the League are professional poets who are actively contributing to the development, growth, and public profile of poetry in Canada. They offer two primary levels of membership, as well as student and supporting memberships, open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Full members are poets with an established poetic career, whether with a published book of poetry or a background in performance and spoken word poetry. Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Brebner
(Jennivien) Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet. She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award. Life Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at the University of Ottawa, the city she made her home for the remainder of her life. Brebner's first three collections of poetry were published by Hendrika Ruger on Netherlandic Press. Her posthumous collection, ''The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems'', was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005. The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded annually by ''Arc'' magazine. Awards Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for ''Radiant Life Forms'', the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for ''The Golden Lotus'', the Archibald Lampman Award The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine '' Arc'', for the year's best work of poetry by a wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster (born 1969) is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal. History She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of British Columbia. Her first book, ''White Stone: The Alice Poems'', won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1998. Bolster's current project, "Long Exposure", is a book-length poem that takes as its starting point Robert Polidori's post-disaster photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl. In 2004, Bolster edited and published ''The Ishtar Gate'', featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poet Diana Brebner. Bolster also acknowledged the support of Hendrika Ruger in previously publishing Brebner's work in years prior. Awards *1993 Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing *1996 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry *1997 Contemporary Verse 2 poetry competition *1997 The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize *1998 Governor General's Award *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Sinnett
Mark Sinnett is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer."Ten Questions with Mark Sinnett" . ''Open Book Toronto'', January 5, 2010. Originally from England, Sinnett moved to Canada as a teenager in 1980. He won the in 1998 for his poetry collection ''The Landing'', and the in 2010 for his novel ''The Carnivore''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Dumont
Marilyn Dumont (born 1955) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree/ Métis descent. Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont.Canada Council for the Arts Public Lending Right Commission. Retrieved 2012-02-17. Dumont holds an MFA from the .Athabasca University . Author biography. Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Hynes
Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet."Poets in Profile: Maureen Hynes" . ''Open Book Toronto'', April 4, 2011. Hynes's debut collection of poetry, ''Rough Skin'' (Wolsak and Wynn), won the ' for best first book of poetry by a Canadian in 1996. Her second collection, ''Harm's Way'', was published by Brick Books in 2001, and her third, ''Marrow, Willow'', was published in 2011 by Pedlar Press in Toronto. In 2015, Pedlar Press published Hynes's ''The Poison Colour''. For ''The Poison Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Maillard
Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a Canadian-American novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. He moved to Canada in 1970 (due to his opposition to the Vietnam War) and became a Canadian citizen in 1976.William H. New, "Keith Maillard," ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'' (University of Toronto Press, 2002), 700. Family background Maillard has French, Canadian, and American roots. His Huguenots great grandparents immigrated to Montreal from Lyon, France, in the early 1880s. His Maillard grandfather and two Montreal-born uncles continued the family tradition of glass-blowing, working for Dominion Glass in Montreal and in Redcliff, Alberta. Maillard's parents divorced when he was a baby and he never knew his father. His father, Eugene C. Maillard, avoided glassblowing work, trained as a draughtsman, and worked for twenty-five years at the Hanford Site nuclear plant in Richland, Washington. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Tourtidis
Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah." It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Ilía) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας, Ilías). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Iliusha or Iliushen'ka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is " Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna". People with the name Real people *Ilya (Archbishop of Novgorod), 12th-century Russian Orthodox cleric and saint * Ilya Ivanovitch Alekseyev (1772–1830), commander of the Russian Imperial Army *Ilya Borok (born 1993), Russian jiujitsu fighter *Ilya Bryzgalov (born 1980), Russian ice hockey goalie *Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador *Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017), Russian painter *Ilya Gringolts (born 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Klar
Barbara Klar (born 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for her poetry collection ''The Night You Called Me a Shadow''.Heather Hodgson, ''Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present''. Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. . p. 127. After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan. She published poetry in literary magazines such as ''Grain'', ''Border Crossings'' and '' Prairie Fire'' before ''The Night You Called Me a Shadow'' was published in 1993. The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award.David Carpenter, ''The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 ~ Progressions''. Coteau Books, 2014. . pp. 204-209. She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, ''The Blue Field'' (1999), ''Tower Road'' (2004) and ''Cypress'' (2008).Cynthia Sugars, ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature''. Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Rees
Roberta Rees (born 1954 in New Westminster, British Columbia)"Author finds voice in elements". ''Calgary Herald'', November 4, 1994. is a Canadian writer from Alberta. Career Rees was raised primarily in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, and has been based in Calgary, Alberta since moving there at age 19 to attend the University of Calgary. She has also taught English and creative writing at the high school and university levels. To date, she is most noted for her short story collection ''Long After Fathers'', which won the ReLit Award for short fiction, and was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, in 2008. Awards In 1993, she won the Gerald Lampert Award and the Alberta Literary Awards' Stephan G. Stephansson prize for poetry for her poetry collection ''Eyes Like Pigeons'', and her novel ''Beneath the Faceless Mountain'' won the Alberta New Fiction Competition for unpublished manuscripts in 1993. Following the publication of ''Beneath the Faceless Mountain'' in 1994, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Harvor
Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor () is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. She was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, where she grew up on the Kingston Peninsula. She enrolled at Concordia University in 1983, receiving an MA in Creative Writing in 1986. She has also won many awards for her fiction and poetry. Her short story collection ''Let Me Be the One'' was a finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Literary Award. ''Fortress of Chairs,'' her first book of poems, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry written by a Canadian writer in 1992. Her second poetry book, ''The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring,'' was a finalist for the Lowther Award in 1997, and her first novel, ''Excessive Joy Injures the Heart'', was chosen one of the ten best books of the year by The Toronto Star in 2000. Also in 2000 Harvor won the Alden Nowlan Award, in 2003 the Marian Engel Award, and in 2004 the Malahat Novella Prize for "Across Some Dark Avenue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Arnott
Joanne Arnott (born 16 December 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer. She has conducted writing workshops across much of Canada and in Australia, including a series at the Carnegie Centre, sponsored by SFU, and has written for the Literary Review of Canada. She received the Gerald Lampert Award for her 1991 collection of poetry ''Wiles of Girlhood''. Arnott lives in British Columbia with her family. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and The Aunties Collective. As a member of the Alliance of Women Against Racism, Etc., she facilitated Unlearning Racism workshops for colleges, universities, government and community groups in Canada throughout the 1990s. She has served on The Writers Union of Canada National Council (2009), The Writers Trust of Canada Authors Committee, and as jury member for the Governor General's Awards/Poetry (2011). She is the Poetry Editor for ''Event Magazine''. Bibliography Poetry *''Wiles of Girlhood'' (Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |