Margaret Laurence (1926–1987)
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Canadian author Margaret Laurence was born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada, on July 18, 1926. She attended United College (now the University of Winnipeg), receiving her B.A. in 1947. Shortly after graduation, she married Jack Laurence, a hydraulic engineer whose job would often visa mer take them overseas; the Laurences lived in England for a year, moved to British Somaliland in 1950, and then to Ghana in 1952. It was in Africa that Laurence wrote her first book, A Tree for Poverty, which was a translation of Somali poetry and stories. She also wrote about her experiences in Somaliland in a travel memoir, The Prophet's Camel Bell, and used Africa as a setting for her first fictional work, a novel called This Side Jordan, and a collection of short stories, The Tomorrow Tamers. This Side Jordan received the 1961 Beta Sigma Phi Award for the best first novel by a Canadian. Laurence is best known, however, for her Manawaka books, which are set in Canada. They include The Stone Angel, The Fire Dwellers House, A Bird in the House, A Jest of God, and The Diviners. The latter two books both received the Governor General's Award, in 1967 and 1975, respectively. After living in Africa, England, and several other countries for many years, Laurence returned to Canada in 1974, settling in Lakefield, Ontario, where she remained until her death in 1987. The Energy Probe Research Foundation, an environmental organization for which she served as one of the directors, now sponsors the Margaret Laurence Fund for projects related to the environment and peace, areas in which Laurence was very active during the last decade of her life. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Laurence, Margaret
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Laurence, Jean Margaret
Wemyss, Jean Margaret (born) - Födelsedag
- 1926-07-18
- Avled
- 1987-01-05
- Begravningsplats
- Neepawa Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
- Dödsort
- Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada
Somaliland (now Somalia)
Ghana
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
London, England, UK
Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, UK (visa alla 8)
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Lakefield, Ontario, Canada - Utbildning
- United College, Winnipeg (BA|1947|now University of Winnipeg)
- Yrken
- reporter ( [1943])
reporter (The Winnipeg Citizen)
short-story writer
novelist
essayist
Writer-in-Residence (University of Toronto | 1969 | 1970) (visa alla 7)
Chancellor (Trent University | 1981 | 1982 | 1983) - Organisationer
- Writers' Trust of Canada
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Beta Sigma Phi Award (1960)
Honorary Fellow (University of Winnipeg | 1967)
Order of Canada (Companion | 1972)
Royal Society of Canada (Fellow | 1977)
Molson Prize (1975)
Governor General's Awards (1966, 1974) (visa alla 7)
National Historic Person (2016)
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Group Read, January 2020: The Diviners i 1001 Books to read before you die (februari 2020)
June Read: Margaret Laurence i Virago Modern Classics (juli 2017)
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