Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan (born July 5, 1937) is a

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author, poet and

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. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ''Exile'' Quarterly. Born in

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, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer,

Morley Callaghan Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality. Biography Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 192 ...

. He is a graduate of the

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. He won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction for his collection ''All the Lonely People''."Andrew Battershill, Robin Richardson & Barry Callaghan win 2019 ReLit Awards"

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, April 16, 2021.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Hogg Poems and Drawings'' – 1978 * ''As Close as We Came'' – 1982 * ''The Black Queen Stories'' – 1982 * ''The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings'' – 1989 * ''Stone Blind Love'' – 1989 * ''Canadian Travellers in Italy'' – 1989 (editor) * ''Exile: The First Fifteen Years'' – 1992 (editor) * ''Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French'' – 1993] * When Things Get Worse'' – 1993 * ''A Kiss is Still a Kiss'' – 1995 * ''This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories'' – 1996 (editor) * ''Barrelhouse Kings'' – 1998 * ''We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War'' – 2001 (edited with Bruce Meyer) * ''Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001'' – 2001 (editor) * ''Between Trains'' – 2007 * ''Beside Still Waters'' – 2009 * ''All the Lonely People: Collected Stories'' - 2018

References

External links

Barry Callaghan archives
at the

Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections Clara Thomas (née McCandless; May 22, 1919 – September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic. A longtime professor of English at York University, she was one of the first academics to devote her work specifically to the study of Canadian literatur ...

, York University Libraries,

Barry Callaghan's bio and list of books
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