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New Star Books
New Star Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Vancouver, British Columbia. New Star publishes between six and eight new titles each year, their list includes literary fiction, experimental poetry, and socially-critical nonfiction. The press has published more than 300 titles since its founding in 1970. History New Star Books has its roots in a literary supplement to the Georgia Straight. Founded by Stan Persky and Dennis Wheeler and originally published as a short pullout section, the ''Georgia Straight Writing Supplement'' featured early work from Daphne Marlatt, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, Milton Acorn, and Gerry Gilbert. In 1970, the writing supplement became the Georgia Straight Writing Series and began publishing books, most notably early works by Lisa Robertson, Pauline Holdstock, Mark Leier, Elizabeth Hay (novelist), and Terry Glavin. Renamed, variously, the “York Street commune” and the “Vancouver Community Press,” the company acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Barman
Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work ''The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia'' has been described as the "standard text on the subject f British Columbia history" She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award (for ''Stanley Park's Secret''). She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ..., as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman. Education *University of British Columbia, 1982, EdD, History of education *University of California at Berkeley, 1970, MLS, Librarianship *Harvard University, 1963, MA, Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donato Mancini
Donato Mancini is a Canadian poet."Mancini debuts as University of Windsor writer-in-residence" '''', September 28, 2017. He is most noted for his 2017 collection ''Same Diff'', which was a shortlisted finalist in 2018. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lillard
Charles "Red" Lillard (February 26, 1944 – March 27, 1997) was an American-born poet and historian who spent much of his adult life in British Columbia and became a Canadian citizen in 1967. He wrote extensively about the history and culture of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Early life and education Lillard was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska. His parents made a living from fishing. Lillard attended the University of British Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts.Charles Lillard's entry in Career Lillard published several books of po ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larissa Lai
Larissa Lai (born 1967) is an American-born Canadian novelist and literary critic. She is a recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and Lambda Literary Foundation's 2020 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Biography Born in La Jolla, California, La Jolla, California, she grew up in St. John's, Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland. She attended the University of British Columbia and, in 1990, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in Sociology. Subsequently, she earned her Master of Arts, MA from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2006, her PhD from the University of Calgary. She is currently an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, where she directs ''The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing''. Formerly she was an Associate Professor in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Hern
Matt Hern is a community organizer, independent scholar, writer and activist based in East Vancouver, British Columbia who is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, ecology and alternative forms of education. He has founded a wide range of community projects, initiatives and institutions. He is currently the co-founder and co-director oSolid State Community Industrieswhich is building a network of workers' co-operatives with youth from newcomer and racialized families. His writing has been published on all six continents and translated into fourteen languages. Early life and education Hern was born in Victoria and grew up in rural British Columbia. After attending Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, he briefly worked in journalism in New York City before moving to East Vancouver working as a sportswriter for a number of years. Hern was a student at the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield, Vermont where he completed an MA, and shortly after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett (May 13, 1944 – February 27, 2022) was a Canadian writer and cultural analyst. He was awarded the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2003 for his book ''Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown''. He was also nominated for the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2012 for ''Human Happiness''. Early life Fawcett was born in Prince George, British Columbia, on May 13, 1944. His father, Hartley, was a soft drink salesman in Alberta who moved to Prince George during the late 1930s to establish his own company; his mother was Rita Surry. Fawcett initially went to Connaught Junior High School in his hometown, before attending Prince George Senior High School. After working in the forest service for three years, he relocated to Vancouver at the age of 22 to study at the newly-formed Simon Fraser University (SFU). There, he was taught by R. Murray Schafer and Robin Blaser, who influenced his writings. Fawcett graduated wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamas Dobozy
Tamas Dobozy is a Canadian writer and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. Early life Dobozy was born in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Between the ages of 3 and 18 he lived in Powell River, British Columbia, and subsequently in Victoria, Montreal, Budapest, Vancouver, Toronto, and St. John's. He received his BA/BFA in English/Creative Writing from The University of Victoria, his MA in English from Concordia University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia. Career Dobozy taught at Memorial University and currently teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. Awards and honors *1995 ''sub-Terrain'' Short Fiction Contest Winner for "Like A Salmon Getting Me Down" *2003 Danuta Gleed Award shortlist for ''When X Equals Marylou'' *2011 O Henry Award for "The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived" *2012 Camera Obscura' Editors' Award for Outstanding Fiction for "The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranj Dhaliwal
Ranj Dhaliwal ( Punjabi: ਰਣਜ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ; born 1976/1977) is a Canadian author. Early life Born in Vancouver, Dhaliwal grew up in Surrey Central, British Columbia in the 1980s, which was a time when Indo-Canadian families were scattered across the suburbs. Unfortunately this was a time when minorities were subjected to discrimination and racism, which Dhaliwal faced firsthand. During his youth, Dhaliwal grew up with kids that at the early age of 13 were packing guns, stealing cars, getting into fights, making alliances, and selling drugs at school with police always close by watching the beginning of the Indo-Canadian gang culture rise. Personal life Ranj Dhaliwal is a Sikh. He and his wife live in Surrey, British Columbia and have three sons. Writing career In 2006, Dhaliwal's first novel ''Daaku ''Daaku'' is a 2006 Canadian crime fiction novel by Ranj Dhaliwal. Synopsis In the violent and ruthless world of Indo–Canadian gangs, Ruby Pandher is on his way u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Culley
Peter Culley (1958–2015) was a Canadian poet and photographer living in Nanaimo at the time of his death. He grew up on Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) bases in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Scotland and lived in Nanaimo, BC since 1972."Peter Culley (1958-2015)." ''BC Booklook''. April 26, 2015. He was known for his “Hammertown” series, ''Hammertown'', ''The Age of Briggs and Stratton'', and ''Parkway'', a re-imagination of Nanaimo and British Columbia.Nicholas Pescod. "Respected poet remembered." ''Nanaimo News Bulletin.'' April 20, 2015. He was also an art critic who wrote extensively on Stan Douglas, Roy Arden, Kelly Wood and Geoffrey Farmer. He was involved with many writing scenes, including The Kootenay School of Writing The Kootenay School of Writing (KSW) is a Vancouver-based writers' collective. Founded in 1984 after the forced closure of David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, British Columbia KSW relocated to Vancouver to offer inexpensive courses (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carellin Brooks
Carellin Brooks is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''One Hundred Days of Rain'' won the Edmund White Award in 2016 and the ReLit Award for Fiction in 2017."Carellin Brooks, Kevin Hardcastle and Sue Goyette win 2016 ReLit Awards" , March 9, 2017. Background Originally from , ,"Assertive tee ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
