Joyce Marshall (November 28, 1913 – October 22, 2005source
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writer and translator.

Biography

The daughter of William Marshall and Joyce Chambers, she was born in

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and was educated there and in the Eastern Townships. She went on to earn a BA from

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, where she was the first woman to become a senior editor for '' The McGill Daily''. Although she continued to improve her fluency in French, Marshall did not feel at home in the conservative

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of the Duplessis era and moved to

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in 1937. She was a reader and editor for the CBC Radio programs ''Canadian short stories'' and ''Anthologies'', where many of her short stories first aired. She also was writer-in-residence at Trent University. She had begun writing at a young age and published her first novel ''Presently Tomorrow'' in 1946. It was followed by ''Lovers and Strangers'' in 1957. Marshall also published a number of collections of short stories: ''A Private Place'' (1975), ''Any Time at All and Other Stories'' (1993) and ''Blood and Bone/En chair et en os'' (1995). Her stories have been included in various anthologies. Marshall translated the works of Gabrielle Roy and Marie of the Incarnation into English. She received a

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Prize for translation in 1976. She was a founding member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. Her literary reviews and essays have appeared in the '' Tamarack Review'', '' Books in Canada'' and ''

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''. She also contributed to the first edition of ''The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature''. She died in Toronto at the age of 91. Month of death "september" is wrong.

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