Byrna Robin Barclay ( Burton; October 8, 1940 – May 7, 2023) was a Canadian writer and editor in
Saskatchewan
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Early life
Barclay was born and raised in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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. In 1962, she moved to
Regina, Saskatchewan
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.
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Career
Barclay served as president of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and also was editor of ''Freelance'', the Guild's newsletter, and fiction editor of ''Grain'', its literary journal. She was founding editor of ''Transition'', a magazine for the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. She was also vice-chair of the Saskatchewan Arts Board
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Honours
In 2004, Barclay was named to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
Personal life and death
Barclay married Ronald Barclay and together they had two children.[ She died on May 7, 2023, at the age of 82.]
Bibliography
Her works include:
* ''Summer of the Hungry Pup'' (1982), which received the Saskatchewan Culture and Youth First Novel Award
* ''The Last Echo'' (1983)
* ''Winter of the White Wolf'' (1985)
* ''From the Belly of a Flying Whale'' (1988)
* ''Crosswinds'' (1996), which won the Best Fiction category of the Saskatchewan Book Award
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s
* ''Searching for the Nude in the Landscape'' (1997)
* ''Girl at the Window'' (2004), which won the Readers' Choice Award of the Saskatchewan Book Awards
* ''The Forest Horses'' (2010)
References
1940 births
2023 deaths
Canadian women novelists
Members of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit
Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan
Writers from Saskatoon
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