Kent Stetson, (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.
Stetson is best known for the plays ''Warm Wind in China'' (1988), one of the first and most prominent
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-themed plays produced in Canada;
''As I Am'' (1986), a noted
gay-themed work;
and the
Governor General's Award
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-winning ''The Harps of God'' (1997).
His other plays include ''Queen of the Cadillac'' (1990), ''Just Plain Murder'' (1992), ''Sweet Magdalena'' (1994), ''The Eyes of the Gull'' (2000), ''New Arcadia'' (2001) and ''Horse High, Bull Strong, Pig Tight'' (2004).
He has also published two novels, ''The World Above the Sky'' (2010) and ''Meat Cove'' (2013).
''The Harps of God'' received the 2001
Governor General's Literary Award
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The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...
for English language drama, and the 2001 Canadian Authors Association's inaugural
Carol Bolt Award.
He won the
Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition for ''New Arcadia'',
the Prince Edward Island Literary Award for outstanding contributions to the literature of Prince Edward Island, and the Wendell Boyle Award for contributions to PEI heritage.
Stetson was appointed to the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...
in July 2007.
References
External links
Official website
1948 births
Living people
Canadian male novelists
Novelists from Prince Edward Island
Members of the Order of Canada
Governor General's Award–winning dramatists
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights
Canadian LGBTQ novelists
Canadian gay writers
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Gay dramatists and playwrights
Gay novelists
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people
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