Barbara Klar (born 1966 in

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) is a

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poet, who won the

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in 1994 for her poetry collection ''The Night You Called Me a Shadow''.Heather Hodgson, ''Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present''. Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. . p. 127. After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the

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. She published poetry in literary magazines such as ''

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'' and '' Prairie Fire'' before ''The Night You Called Me a Shadow'' was published in 1993. The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award.David Carpenter, ''The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 ~ Progressions''.

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, 2014. . pp. 204-209. She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, ''The Blue Field'' (1999), ''Tower Road'' (2004) and ''Cypress'' (2008).Cynthia Sugars, ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature''.

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, 2015. . p. 741. Both ''The Blue Field'' and ''Cypress'' were shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award. She won a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the

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in 2004.

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