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Writers' Trust Notable Author Award
The Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established Canadian author to honour their body of work. Presented for the first time in 2008 under the name Notable Author Award, the award was created by merging the formerly separate Marian Engel Award and Timothy Findley Award, which were presented to female and male nominees respectively. The award was subsequently renamed back to Engel/Findley. The award is presented to one author, regardless of gender, annually. The award comes with a monetary prize of $25,000. Winners Marian Engel Award (1986–2007) *1986 – Alice Munro *1987 – Audrey Thomas *1988 – Edna Alford *1989 – Merna Summers *1990 – Carol Shields *1991 – Joan Clark *1992 – Joan Barfoot *1993 – Sandra Birdsell *1994 – Jane Urquhart *1995 – Bonnie Burnard *1996 – Barbara Gowdy *1997 – Katherine Govier *1998 – Sharon Butala *1999 – Janice Kulyk Keefer *2000 – Anita Rau Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers' Trust Of Canada
The Writers' Trust of Canada (french: La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada) is a registered charity which provides financial support to Canadian writers. Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laurence, and David Young, the Writers' Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada's novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other fiction and nonfiction writers. It was registered as a charitable organization on March 3, 1976. The organization funds and administers a number of Canadian literary awards including the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. The organization funds programs and events to help emerging Canadian writers including the annual ''Margaret Laurence Lecture'', given by a noted Canadian writer; writers' residencies at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon; and the ''Woodcock Fund'', which provides emergency financial assis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hay (novelist)
Elizabeth Grace Hay (born October 22, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her 2007 novel ''Late Nights on Air'' won the Giller Prize. Her first novel ''A Student of Weather'' (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award. She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, for her short-story collection ''Small Change'' in 1997 Governor General's Awards, 1997 and her novel ''Garbo Laughs'' in 2003 Governor General's Awards, 2003. ''His Whole Life'' (2015) was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Hay's memoir about the last years of her parents' lives, ''All Things Consoled'', won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work — including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. Life Hay was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Winter (writer)
Michael Winter (born 1965) is a Canadian writer, the author of five novels and three collections of short stories. Life and career Michael Winter was born in 1965 in Jarrow, England. His father was an industrial arts teacher, who moved the family to Newfoundland, Canada three years later, eventually settling in Corner Brook. After high school, Winter attended Memorial University, graduating in 1986 with a BA in economic geography.Smith, S. (2007, July). Change is Good. ''Quill & Quire'' Winter's first short story collection, ''Creaking in Their Skins'', was published in 1994. In 1999, editor John Metcalf at The Porcupine's Quill published his second book of stories, ''One Last Good Look''. Winter moved to Toronto in 1999, where he published his first two novels: ''This All Happened'' (2000) and ''The Big Why'' (2004). Much of Winter's fiction chronicles the life and adventures of his fictional alter ego, Gabriel English. ''This All Happened'', for example, is organized as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador. Early life and education Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland; he grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he won the university's Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest in 1986 and received a B.A. in English in 1987. He completed a M.A. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1988, later leaving the Ph.D. program to pursue his writing career. Career In 1994, he became the first winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for young unpublished writers. His first volume of poetry, ''Arguments with Gravity'' (1996), won the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. ''Hard Light'' (1998), his second collection, was nominated for the Mil ... [...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] |
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society. Early life and education Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India, to a Parsi family. His brother is the playwright and author Cyrus Mistry. He earned a BA in Mathematics and Economics from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He emigrated to Canada with his wife-to-be Freny Elavia in 1975 and they married shortly afterwards. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to academia at the University of Toronto where he obtained a BA in English and Philosophy. Career While attending the University of Toronto (Woodsworth College) he became the first to win two Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate."Trudeau appoints acclaimed writer David Adams Richards to Senate" '''', 30 August 2017. Background Born in , , Richards left[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, ''The Englishman's Boy'', '' The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection '' Man Descending'' in 1982, the second for his novel ''The Englishman's Boy'' in 1996, and the third for his short story collection ''Daddy Lenin and Other Stories'' in 2015. Life and career Guy Vanderhaeghe was born on April 5, 1951 in Esterhazy, a mining town in southeastern Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in 1971, High Honours in History in 1972 and Master of Arts in History in 1975, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1978 he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In 1973 he was Research Officer, Institute for Northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Gaston
Bill Gaston (born January 14, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia. Aside from teaching at various universities, he has worked as a logger, salmon fishing guide, group home worker and, most exotically, playing hockey in the south of France. He is married (to writer Dede Crane) with four children, including filmmaker Connor Gaston, and lives in Victoria BC, where he teaches at the University of Victoria. He has three degrees from the University of British Columbia and played varsity hockey for the UBC Thunderbirds. Career Gaston has published seven novels–''Tall Lives'' (Macmillan, 1990, and Seal Books), ''The Cameraman'' (Macmillan 1994, and Raincoast, 2002), ''Bella Combe Journal'' (Cormorant, 1996), ''The Good Body'' (Stoddart, 2000 and U.S., HarperCollins, 2001, Raincoast, 2002, Anansi, 2009, nominated for the Relit Award), ''Sointula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Schoemperlen
Diane Mavis Schoemperlen (born July 9, 1954) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Schoemperlen was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University. Career Schoemperlen's first novel, ''In the Language of Love'', was published in 1994; it is composed of one hundred chapters, each one based on one of the one hundred words in the Standard Word Association Test, which was used to measure sanity. There are chapters titled "Table," "Slow," "Cabbage," and "Scissors." ''New York Times'' reviewer Jay Parini pronounced Schoemperlen "a novelist of real promise". Schoemperlen's 1998 book of short stories, ''Forms of Devotion'', won the Governor General's Award. [...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] |
Gayla Reid
Gayla Reid (born 12 May 1945) is an Australian-born Canadian writer. Biography Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Remaining in Canada, she was active in the country's feminist movement, editing the newspaper '' Kinesis'' and the literary journal '' Room of One's Own'' and teaching women's studies at Vancouver Community College. She began publishing fiction in the early 1990s, winning the Journey Prize in 1993 for her short story "Sister Doyle's Men". In 1994, she published her first short story collection, ''To Be There With You'', which was a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995. ''All the Seas of the World'' and ''Closer Apart'' were finalists for the Ethel Wilson fiction prize in 2001 and 2002. ''Come from Afar'' was published to critical acclaim in 2011. According to jury citation, Gayla Reid stands out for her stunningly beautif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
