The Guernica Writers Series
In 2000 Antonio D'Alfonso established the 'Writers Series' a chain of monographs each devoted to a Canadian author and edited by senior Canadian academics. The Series was co-directed by Antonio D'Alfonso and Joseph Pivato. After 2010 Pivato became sole editor of this series. By 2019 this series includes over 50 volumes with monographs on such Canadian authors as Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, M.G. Vassanji, Jack Hodgins, George Elliott Clarke, Nino Ricci, Alistair MacLeod, Aritha Van Herk, F.G. Paci, Al Purdy, Mary di Michele, David Adams Richards, Anne Hebert, Daniel David Moses, Caterina Edwards, Don McKay, P.K. Page, Nicole Brossard, Drew Hayden Taylor, Joy Kogawa, Gary Geddes, Kristjana Gunnars, Pier Giorgio DiCicco (Hutcheon) and others. It is now called the 'Essential Writers Series.' A number of Guernica anthologies have been used as texts in college and university literature courses. They include ''The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing'' (1998), ''Voices in the Desert: An Anthology of Arabic Canadian Women Writers'' (2002) (Sugars), ''Pillars of Lace: The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Women Writers'' (1998) (Gundale), ''Ricordi: Things Remembered'' (1989), ''Social Pluralism and Literary History'' (1996) (Verduyn) ''Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada'' (2002) and other titles. (Pivato 2007)Literary Awards
''Les Ages de l'amour'' by Dorothy Livesay won the 1989 Governor General translation award for Jean Antonin Billiard. ''Aknos'' by Fulvio Caccia won the 1994 Governor General award for French poetry. ''Island of the Nightingales''" by Caterina Edwards won the 2001 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction. ''Remembering History'' by Rhea Tregebov won the 1982 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry. ''Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing'' by J. Pivato won the 1985 Bressani Prize. ''Keeping Afloat'' by M. Travis Lane won the 2002 Atlantic Poetry Award. ''The Stalinist's Wife,'' translated by Luise von Flotow, was shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General's Award for Translation (French to English). ''Where the Sun Shines Best'' by Austin Clarke was shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General's Award for Poetry (English Language). ''Eye'' by Marianne Micros was shortlisted for the 2019 Governor General's Award for Fiction (English Language). .References
Clarke, George Elliott. "Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections." ''Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Hutcheon, Linda. "The Canadian Mosaic: A Melting Pot on Ice: The Ironies of Ethnicity and Race." ''Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies''. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pivato, Joseph. "Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of AICW." ''Strange Peregrinations''. eds. Delia De Santis, Venera Fazio, Anna Foschi Ciampolini. Toronto: Centre for Italian-Canadian Studies, University of Toronto, 2007. Sugars, Cynthia C. ed. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature.'' New York: Oxford U. P. 2016. 5-6. Verduyn, Christl. ed. ''Literary Pluralities.'' Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998. 57, 290. Wilke, Gundale. "Triculural Landscape." (''Pillars of Lace'') ''Canadian Literature'' 178 (Autumn 2003) 164-66.External links