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Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.Conway Daly, "Munro, Atwood lead familiar names in race for Governor General's award". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', October 28, 1994. English French References {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General Of Canada
The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, the United Kingdom. The , on the advice of Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry on the Government of Canada in the 's name, performing most of constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an indefinite period—known as serving ''at Majesty's pleasure''—though five years is the usual length of time. Since 1959, it has also been traditional to alternate between francophone and anglophone officeholders—although many recent governors general have been bilingual. The office began in the 17th century, when the French crown appointed governors of the colony of Canada. Following the British conquest of the colony, the British monarch appointed governors of the Province of Quebec (later the Canadas) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Haggerty
Joan Haggerty (born 26 April 1940) is a Canadian novelist. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she studied English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia. From 1962 to 1972, she lived in London, England; Formentera, Spain; and New York City. She now lives in Telkwa, B.C. above the Widzin'kwa River. Literary career Please, Miss, Can I Play God? Notes and Sketches based on an adventure in dramatic play. Methuen, London, 1966. Bobbs-Merrill, NYC, 1966. Joan Haggerty's first book is an early 1960s exploration of creative drama in an east end London, England elementary school. As a young teacher, she discovers that children learn best through play; by acting out their interpretations of the classics and developing their own dramas, they come to embrace the institutions of theatre as their own. Daughters of the Moon. Bobbs-Merrill, NYC, 1971. Set in Spain and England, Daughters of the Moon is a novel told from the point of view of a woman in labour. It begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whale Riding Weather
''Whale Riding Weather'' is a play by Canadian playwright Bryden MacDonald. It is written for three male actors. The characters are Lyle, a bitter aged queen in a downward spiral, Auto, Lyle's younger lover, and Jude, a man younger still that Auto has just met. Synopsis A fading old queen finds his life ebbing away from him, as his younger lover also slips away with a new, even younger man. Production history The play premiered at Factory Theatre in Toronto in 1991, and has been produced at Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Touchstone Theatre in Vancouver, Plutonium Playhouse in Halifax. Talonbooks published the script in 1994. It was nominated for the Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ... for Drama. References Plays by Bryden MacDonald Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryden MacDonald
Bryden MacDonald (born October 30, 1960 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia)Bryden MacDonald at The Canadian Encyclopedia. is a Canadians, Canadian playwright. His best known plays include ''Whale Riding Weather'', which was a nominated for the Governor General's Award for Governor General's Award for English-language drama, English drama at the 1994 Governor General's Awards, and ''With Bated Breath'', which was a shortlisted nominee in the Drama category at the 2011 Lambda Literary Awards. His other plays include ''The Weekend Healer'' (1994), ''Divinity Bash / nine lives'' (1998) and ''The Extasy of Bedridden Riding Hood'' (2004). He was nominated again for the Governor General's Award for English drama for ''Odd Ducks'' (2015),Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, ''The Columbia encyclopedia of modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany. Many of the plays explore the divide between the powerful and the oppressed, exploring, for example, the racism and abuse suffered by Canada's indigenous peoples, issues faced by people with disabilities, child sexual abuse and the struggle for women's rights.McNulty, Jim. "Trading her plays for politics: Dartmouth MP makes many sacrifices to lobby on behalf of disabled." Halifax ''Daily News'', July 24, 1998. Four of her plays were nominated for Governor General's Awards. ''Sisters'', which dramatizes the human devastation caused by a convent-run, native residential school, received the Labatt's Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival. Lill's adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna McClelland Glass
Joanna McClelland Glass (born October 7, 1936 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian playwright. She became an American citizen in 1962. Plays *1972 ''Canadian Gothic'' *1972 ''American Modern'' *1975 ''Artichoke'' *1980 ''To Grandmother's House We Go'' *1983 ''Play Memory'' *1989 ''Yesteryear'' *1993 ''If We Are Women'' *2004 '' Trying'' *2008 ''Palmer Park'' *2010 ''Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily'' Novels *1975 ''Reflections on a Mountain Summer'' (Knopf) *1984 ''Woman Wanted'' (St. Martin's) See also *''Woman Wanted ''Woman Wanted'' is a 1999 film directed by Kiefer Sutherland (later credited as Alan Smithee). It is based on a novel by Joanna Glass, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Sutherland, Holly Hunter, Michael Moriarty, and Sutherland's mother, S ...'', film adapted from novel. References Further reading *''The Oxford companion to Canadian literature'', 2nd ed., pp. 464–466 *''The Oxford companion to Canadian theatre'', pp. 234–235. External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ends Of The Earth (play)
''The Ends of the Earth'' is a 1992 play by the Canadian playwright Morris Panych. It tells the story of two men, Frank and Walker, each of whom is convinced that the other is following him. Despite their best efforts at running away from each other, the two men repeatedly find themselves in the same places. ''The Ends of the Earth'' premiered at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver in 1992, in a production directed by Panych, starring Alec Willows and Earl Pastko as Frank and Walker. Later that yea,r it was performed at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ..., with Stephen Ouimette and Keith Knight in the lead roles, and Panych again directing. Awards ''The Ends of the Earth'' won the 1994 Governor General's Literary Award for Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Panych
Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of British Columbia. Plays *''Co$t of Living'' (1991) *'' The Ends of the Earth'' (1994) *''Vigil'' (1996) (adapted for the British stage as ''Auntie and Me'') Vigil played at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, BC (15 November - 11 December 2022) and Panych is described on the playbill as one of Canada's "most prolific and idiosyncratic playwrights -- and one of the very best. I love his plays -- and his characters. So many of them approach the world with disdain and skepticism. But despite their best efforts -- they can't help finding the good in other people." This work is best described as a very funny black comedy.Playbill for Vigil at the Belfry Theatre, 15 November to 11 December 2022 *''Lawrence & Holloman'' *''Girl in the Go ... [...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. Walker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Reid
Monty Reid (born 1952 in Spalding, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet. Life He graduated from the University of Alberta, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta, and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and later at the Canadian Museum of Nature starting in 1999 (since retired). He has won Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times, the Archibald Lampman Award, National Magazine Awards, and is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award. He was editor and publisher of a number of literary magazines, including ''The Camrose Review'' (later ''The Dinosaur Review''), ''The NeWest ReView'', and ''Arc Poetry Magazine,'' as well as of the chapbook press Sidereal Press. As a musician, he plays guitar and mandolin in the band Call Me Katie. He is the current Festival Director at VerseFest, Ottawa’s international poetry festival Works Books * ''Karst Means Stone''. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWest Press, 1979. * * ''The Dream of Snowy Owls''. Edmonton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Fleck
Margaret Louise (Polly) Fleck (1933-2019) was a Canadian poet. She was most noted for her poetry collection ''The Chinese Execution'', which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1994 Governor General's Awards. The wife of Paul Fleck, a president of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, she published her first poetry collection ''Polychronicon'' in 1984. Following her husband's death in 1992, she was active in the Fleck Family Foundation, which endowed the Banff Centre's Fleck Fellowships and launched the Norma Fleck Award for children's literature."Industrialist sponsors book award: Canada has a new literary prize". ''Ottawa Citizen The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the '' ...'', May 17, 1999. References 1933 births 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Blaser
Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada. Personal background Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, becoming a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and early 1960s. He moved to Canada in 1966, joining the faculty of Simon Fraser University; after taking early retirement in the 1980s, he held the position of Professor Emeritus. He lived in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. In June 1995, for Blaser's 70th birthday, a conference was held in Vancouver to pay tribute to his contribution to Canadian poetry. The conference, known as the "Recovery of the Public World" (a phrase borrowed from Hannah Arendt), was attended by poets from around the world, including Canadian poets Michael Ondaatje, Steve McCaffery, Phyllis Webb, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Stan Persky and Daphne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
