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2001 Governor General's Awards
The 2001 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on November 14. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000."Urquhart, Wright get GG award nominations". ''The Telegram'', October 24, 2001. English French References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson ( zh, c=伍冰枝; ; born February 10, 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005. Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941, as a refugee from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, and was raised in Ottawa. After receiving a number of university degrees, Clarkson worked as a producer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and a journalist for various magazines. Her first diplomatic posting came in the early 1980s, when she promoted Ontarian culture in France and other European countries. In 1999, she was appointed Governor General by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, to replace Roméo LeBlanc as viceroy, a post which she occupied until 2005, when she was succeeded by Michaëlle Jean. While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Crean
Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and several other languages. Variations * Susana, Susanna (or Suzanna), Susannah, Suzana, Suzannah * Susann, Sussan, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne, Suzanne * Susanne * Suzan * Suzanne * Suzette * Susie, Suzy Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * Albanian and * * , or * * , or * * , or * Catalan, Estonian and * ** * Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus *Czech (surnam ... and * Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Brownell
Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife, Sue Miner. He is the author of a number of plays, including ''Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman'', which was nominated for a Governor General's Award. His libretto for the opera ''Iron Road'' won a Dora Mavor Moore Award and he was nominated for a Dora for his 2006 play, ''Medici Slot Machine''. Other award-winning work includes ''The Martha Stewart Project'', ''Playballs'', ''High Sticking - Three Period Plays'', ''The Chevalier St. George'', ''The Storyteller's Bag'' and ''The Weaving Maiden''. Mark is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, and has been a playwright-in-residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children, Lily and Gavin. Produced stage plays * Medici Slot Machine (premiere: Tarragon Theatre Extra Space, Toronto. Nominated for Best New Play, Dora Mavor Moore Awards) * The Weaving Maiden (Soundstreams/T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Stetson
Kent Stetson, (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Stetson is best known for the plays ''Warm Wind in China'' (1988), one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada; ''As I Am'' (1986), a noted gay-themed work; and the Governor General's Award-winning ''The Harps of God'' (1997). His other plays include ''Queen of the Cadillac'' (1990), ''Just Plain Murder'' (1992), ''Sweet Magdalena'' (1994), ''The Eyes of the Gull'' (2000), ''New Arcadia'' (2001) and ''Horse High, Bull Strong, Pig Tight'' (2004). He has also published two novels, ''The World Above the Sky'' (2010) and ''Meat Cove'' (2013). ''The Harps of God'' received the 2001 Governor General's Literary Award for English language drama, and the 2001 Canadian Authors Association's inaugural Carol Bolt Award. He won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition for ''New Arcadia'', the Prince Edward Island Literary Award for outstanding contributions to the literature of Prince E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided. Because the award is presented for plays published in print, a play's eligibility for the award can sometimes be several years later than its eligibility for awards, such as the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play or the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, which are based on the theatrical staging."Plays at the G-Gs: better late than never". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 22, 2005. Titles which compile several works by the playwright into a single volume may also be nominated for or win the award. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple winners and nominees 2 Wins * Catherine Banks * John Mighton * Colleen Murphy * Morris Panych * Sharon Pollock * Jordan Tannahill * Judith Thompson * George F. Walke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve McCaffery
Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the David Gray Chair at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, '' The Four Horsemen''. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets. Bibliography *''Carnival'' – 1967–1975 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Paul Kroetsch (June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011) '''', June 22, 2011. was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, '''', he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about |
Phil Hall (poet)
Phil Hall (born 1953 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. Education Hall holds a M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor. Career Phil Hall started Flat Singles Press, producing broadsides & chapbooks, when he was an undergraduate studying drama and English at the University of Windsor. After graduating with an MA in 1978, he lived in Vancouver, where he was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union and the Vancouver Men Against Rape Collective. In the late 80s he often wrote reviews of poetry and children's literature for Books In Canada, and was the Literary Editor for This Magazine. He also edited (with Andrew Vaisius) a short-lived journal called ''Don't Quit Yr Day-Job''. Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), George Brown College, Seneca College and Humber College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Ottawa, Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men In The Off Hours
''Men in the Off Hours'' (2000) is a book of poems and prose pieces by Anne Carson. It won her the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001. Summary ''Men in the Off Hours'' is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. The pieces include diverse references to writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as to historical, biblical, and mythological figures, including: Anna Akhmatova, Antigone, Aristotle, Antonin Artaud, John James Audubon, Augustine, Samuel Beckett, Beethoven, Bertolt Brecht, Brahms, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Bei Dao, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Derrida, René Descartes, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Giotto, Jean-Luc Godard, Maxim Gorky, Tamiki Hara, Heraclitus, Thomas Higginson, Hokusai, Homer, Edward Hoppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Carson
Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. Early life and education Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950. Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns. In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2016-2017. Clarke's work addresses the experiences and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography coined "Africadia." Life Clarke was born to William and Geraldine Clarke in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1978. He earned a BA honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an MA degree in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a PhD degree in English from Queen's University (1993). He has received honorary degrees from Dalhousie University ( LL.D.), the University of New Brunswick ( Litt.D.), the University of Alberta (Litt.D.), the University of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Poetry
This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided. at . Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{Canadian poetry[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
