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Numéro Cinq
''Numéro Cinq'' was an online international journal of arts and letters founded in 2010 by the Governor-General's Award-winning Canadian novelist Douglas Glover. ''Numéro Cinq'' published a wide variety of new and established artists and writers with a bent toward the experimental, hybrid works, and work in translation as well as essays on the craft and art of writing. Its last issue appeared in August 2017. History The magazine's name comes from Glover's short story “The Obituary Writer” (published in his collection ''Bad News of the Heart''). The hero, based loosely on the author as a young newspaperman, harasses a neighbour by making loud noises in the night and pretending to be a member of a sinister terrorist group called Numéro Cinq. Founder and Editor, Douglas Glover Douglas Glover, who currently lives in central Vermont, was raised on a tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario. He studied philosophy at York University then received a M.Litt. in philosophy from the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Glover (writer)
Douglas Glover (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario. Canada) is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including ''Elle'' which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), three books of essays, and ''The Enamoured Knight'', a monograph on ''Don Quixote'' and novel form. His 1993 novel, ''The Life and Times of Captain N.'', was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A. Knopf. His most recent book is an essay collection, ''The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form'' (Biblioasis, 2019). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971–72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Sas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed ''The Stone Angel'' by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of ''Canada Reads''. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Bibliography Approximately 350 short stories published; *''Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed'' — 1968 *''Vault'' — 1973 *''Krokodile'' — 1973 *''Sword/Play'' — 1974 *''The Love Parlour'' — 1977 *''The Broad Back of the Angel'' — 1977 *''Cry Evil'' — 1980 *''Fat Woman'' — 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''Death Suite'' — 1981 *''The Magician in Love'' &mdash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Flood
Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940)"Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 25, 1990. is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton,W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. . "Creighton, Luella Sanders", p. 247. she grew up primarily in Toronto. After attending the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley she spent some years in the United States, where she married Maurice Flood before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969."Figures of Authority" ''''. She has been active in ... [...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] |
Goran Simić (poet)
Goran Simić (born 1952) is a Serbian-Canadian poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognized internationally for his works of poetry, essays, short stories and theatre. Biography Simić was born in Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1952 and has written eleven volumes of poetry, drama and short fiction, including ''Sprinting from the Graveyard'' (Oxford, 1997). His work has been translated into nine languages and has been published and performed in several European countries. One of the most prominent writers of the former Yugoslavia, Simić was trapped in the Siege of Sarajevo. In 1995 he and his family were able to settle in Canada as the result of a Freedom to Write Award from PEN. ''Immigrant Blues'' was Simic's second full-length volume of poems in English, and the first to be published in Canada. This was followed by two books published in 2005: a poetry collection, ''From Sarajevo, With Sorrow''—which involves a retranslation of the earlier, bowdlerized versions found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genni Gunn
Genni Gunn is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator. Born in Trieste, Italy, she currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. She is chair of Public Lending Rights, a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and PEN International. Her 2020 short story collection ''Permanent Tourist'' was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for short fiction. Bibliography Novels * ''Thrice Upon a Time'' (1990), * ''Tracing Iris'' (2001), * ''Solitaria'' (2010), Short stories * ''On the Road'' (1991), * ''Hungers'' (2002), * ''Permanent Tourists'' (2020) Short stories in multiple-author anthologies *"Stones" (2008), ''Exotic Gothic 2'' (ed. Danel Olson), hardbound, paperback *"Water Lover" (May 2012), ''Exotic Gothic 4'' (ed. Danel Olson), hardbound, slipcased & signed edition *"Beached" (2012), ''Room Magazine'' Poetry * ''Mating in Captivity'' (1993), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Henighan
Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan (born 19 June 1960) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist and academic. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Henighan arrived in Canada at the age of five and grew up in rural eastern Ontario. He studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981. From 1984 to 1992 he lived in Montreal as a freelance writer and completed an M.A. at Concordia University. Between 1992 and 1996 he earned a doctorate in Spanish American literature at Wadham College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Henighan became the first writer to have stories published in three different editions of the annual ''May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories''. He also studied in Colombia, Romania and Germany. From 1996 to 1998 Henighan taught Latin American literature at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. Since 1999 he has taught at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Henighan has publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in ''DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ on the 2009 ''DJ Magazine'' top 100. Style While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). His m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danila Botha
Danila Botha is a Canadian author and novelist. She has published two short story collections, with a third to be published in 2024 and two novels, with the second to be published in 2025. Personal life and work Botha was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982. She is Jewish, and is of Moroccan Israeli and Lithuanian Jewish descent. As well as English, she speaks Hebrew and Afrikaans. She moved to Toronto with her family as a teenager. She studied Creative Writing at York University, and at the Humber College School for Writers. She volunteered with Na-me-res and Ve'ahavta, organizations benefiting the homeless, which inspired many of the short stories in ''Got No Secrets'', her first book, published by Tightrope Books in Canada in May 2010, and Modjaji Books in South Africa in 2012. The stories, which deal with addiction, abuse, suicide, and childhood, are journeys into the private lives of twelve women. Botha has lived in South Africa, Ra'anana, Israel and Halifax, ... [...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] |
Ann Ireland
Ann Ireland (1953–2018) was a Canadian fiction author who published five novels between 1985 and 2018. Her first novel, ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi'' (1985), was the winner of the Seal $50,000 1st Novel Award. She also wrote 1996's ''The Instructor'', which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, and 2002's ''Exile'', which was shortlisted for the 2002 Governor General's Awards and the Rogers Writers' Trust fiction prize. Life Ireland was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada and for many years, up until the time of her death, was a writing instructor and the coordinator of the Writing Workshops Department at the Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her 1985 novel, ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi'', was the basis for the 1991 feature film '' The Pianist''. Her final novel, 2018's ''Where's Bob?'', was publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Anthony Jarman
Mark Anthony Jarman (born 11 June 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian fiction writer. Jarman's work includes the novel ''Salvage King, Ya!'', the short story collection ''Knife Party at the Hotel Europa'' and the travel book ''Ireland's Eye.'' A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jarman is currently a faculty member of the English department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Previously, he has taught at the University of Victoria. Jarman's writing has won the O. Henry Award, the Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize, and has been a finalist for the Journey Prize. Jarman has been awarded the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award twice. Personal life Though native to Edmonton, Jarman has travelled extensively across the country and the world, visiting places such as Ireland, the United States and Italy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |