Canadian writer (born 1935)
George Harry Bowering , OC OBC (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate .
Life and career
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 Lionel Kearns , Frank Davey , Fred Wah , Jamie Reid , and David Dawson, who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s. There they founded the journal TISH . In the late 1960s Bowering's work was published in 0 to 9 magazine , an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.
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 was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2004.
When the Indian Hungryalist, also known as Hungry generation , poet Malay Roy Choudhury , was arrested at Kolkata, India, Bowering brought out a special issue of Imago for helping the Indian poet in his trial.
Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize .
Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker , The Pillar (1952)
David Walker , Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall , Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies , The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence , The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel , Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley , The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro , The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington , Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra , The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas , Five Wives (2019)
2020s
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
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