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Oberon Press
Oberon Press is an independent Canadian literary publisher founded in 1966. It focuses mainly on Canadian fiction—particularly short stories—and poetry, but also publishes criticism, history, biography and autobiography. Oberon has published early work by Canadian writers such as David Adams Richards, Wayne Johnston, Peter Behrens, Hugh Hood, David Helwig, bpNichol, George Bowering and W.P. Kinsella. Two short-story anthologies, ''Best Canadian Stories'' and ''Coming Attractions'', feature the work of established and new Canadian writers. Oberon’s national restaurant guide, ''Where to Eat in Canada'', published annually since 1971, has sold more than 150,000 copies. The ''Best Canadian Stories'' anthology, now in its fortieth edition, has been edited by David Helwig, John Metcalf, Clark Blaise, Leon Rooke and Douglas Glover, and features the best stories of the preceding year. ''Coming Attractions'', which introduces previously unpublished writers, has appeared annu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bowering
George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is author of more than 100 books. Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal '' TISH''. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Heighton
Steven Heighton (August 14, 1961 – April 19, 2022) was a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is the author of eighteen books, including three short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections. ''Canadian Poetry Online''. His last work was ''Selected Poems 1983-2020'' () and an album, ''The Devil's Share''. Life and work Heighton was born in , , and grew up there and in |
Sharon Butala
Sharon Butala (born Sharon Annette LeBlanc, 1940 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian writer and novelist. Life Butala was born in an outpost hospital in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. She was the second of five daughters born to Amy Graham and Achille LeBlanc, who ran a sawmill near Garrick, Saskatchewan. In 1946 her family moved to the French-Canadian town of St. Louis, Saskatchewan, and moved again when she was thirteen years old to the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Saskatchewan obtaining both a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Education degree. Between her third and fourth year of university she married for the first time. This marriage lasted 14 years, and her son, Sean Hoy, was born during this time. After graduating she taught English in Saskatchewan and British Columbia and also taught in a special program for the YMCA in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1969 she returned to Saskatoon and worked in special education at Princess Alexandra Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Burnard
Bonnie Burnard (January 15, 1945 – March 4, 2017) was a Canadian short story writer and novelist, best known for her 1999 novel, '' A Good House'',Bonnie Burnard at . which won the . Born in , she grew up in |
Timothy Taylor (writer)
Timothy Taylor (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and professor of creative writing."A novelist who packs a punch". '' The Globe and Mail'', April 11, 2006. Background Born in Venezuela, Taylor was raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia and later in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied economics at the University of Alberta and obtained an MBA at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. During his years in university, Taylor served as an officer in the Canadian Forces Naval Reserves. After graduation, he worked in banking in Toronto, Ontario. In 1987 he returned to Vancouver, British Columbia where he currently resides. Writing career Taylor's short story "Doves of Townsend" won the Journey Prize in 2000."Vancouver writer dominates: One author stands out in two short story collections". ''Calgary Herald'', February 10, 2001. He had two other stories on the competition's preliminary list of finalists that year, and is to date the only wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Smith (writer)
Neil Smith (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec. His novel ''Boo'', published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. ''Boo'' was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection ''Bang Crunch'', in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the ''Washington Post'' and '' The Globe and Mail'', won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize.Gordon Bowness"In print: Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch" ''Daily Xtra'', January 31, 2007. Smith also has a degree in translation and translates from French to English. ''The Goddess of Fireflies'', his translation of Geneviève Pettersen's novel ''La déesse des mouches à feu'', was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Bock
Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, lecturer at the University of Toronto, travel writer and book reviewer. His novel ''Going Home Again'' was published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2013. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. ''Going Home Again'' earned a review in ''Kirkus Review''. ''The Communist's Daughter'', published by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US in 2006, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune. His first novel, ''The Ash Garden,'' about various kinds of fallout from the Hiroshima bomb, was published in 2001, and was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Regional Best Book). It won the 2002 Canada-Japan Literary Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Moore (writer)
Lisa Moore (born 28 March 1964) is a Canadian writer and editor established in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Biography Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Moore studied art first at College of the North Atlantic in her home province and then at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Although she had intended to follow a career in the visual arts, she now writes full-time. Moore's work primarily takes place in Newfoundland. She has worked to promote different writers and places of the province by compiling local artists' text and writing articles about Newfoundland communities. In her new book "The Democracy Cookbook" Moore writes a non-partisan approach to "stir up conversations around cabinet tables". Moore's daughter Eva Crocker is also a writer, whose debut short story collection ''Barrelling Forward'' was published in 2017. Awards and recognition Moore's first two books, ''Degrees of Nakedness'' (1995) and ''Open'' (2002), are short story collections. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Itani
Frances Susan Itani, née Hill (born August 25, 1942) is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist. She is a Member of the Order of Canada. Biography Itani was born in Belleville, Ontario,"Belleville-born author Frances Itani won acclaim for new book's prequel" '''', August 29, 2014. and grew up in Quebec. She studied nursing in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society. Early life and education Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India, to a Parsi family. His brother is the playwright and author Cyrus Mistry. He earned a BA in Mathematics and Economics from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He emigrated to Canada with his wife-to-be Freny Elavia in 1975 and they married shortly afterwards. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to academia at the University of Toronto where he obtained a BA in English and Philosophy. Career While attending the University of Toronto (Woodsworth College) he became the first to win tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Glover (writer)
Douglas Glover (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario. Canada) is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including ''Elle'' which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), three books of essays, and ''The Enamoured Knight'', a monograph on ''Don Quixote'' and novel form. His 1993 novel, ''The Life and Times of Captain N.'', was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A. Knopf. His most recent book is an essay collection, ''The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form'' (Biblioasis, 2019). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971–72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
