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词条 Joan Clark
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  1. Awards and recognition

  2. Books

  3. References

  4. External links

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Joan Clark BA, D.Litt. (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957.[1] She has worked as a teacher.

Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton's University of Alberta. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s. Clark also served as president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.

Clark served on the jury of the 2001 Giller Prize. In 2010 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

She lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Awards and recognition

  • 1988: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards
  • 1988: finalist, Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Victory of Geraldine Gull
  • 1991: Marian Engel Award
  • 1995: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Dream Carvers
  • 1998: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
  • 1999: Vicky Metcalf Award
  • 2003: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Word for Home
  • 2006: longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, An Audience of Chairs
  • 2010: Order of Canada

Books

  • 1968: Girl of the Rockies
  • 1971: Thomasina and the Trout Tree (Tundra) {{ISBN|0-912766-02-6}}
  • 1977: The Hand of Robin Squires (Clarke, Irwin) {{ISBN|0-7720-1091-9}} (La main de Robin Squires: le mystere de l'ile aux Chenes, translated by Claude Aubry (P. Tisseyre, 1984) {{ISBN|2-89051-158-8}})

Penguin Canada paperback editions: {{ISBN|0-14-031905-0}}, {{ISBN|0-14-301512-5}}

other paperback editions: {{ISBN|0-7720-1311-X}}, {{ISBN|0-7736-7426-8}}

  • 1982: From a High Thin Wire (NeWest) {{ISBN|0-920316-51-4}}
  • 1985: Wild Man of the Woods (Viking Canada) {{ISBN|0-670-80015-5}}

Penguin Canada paperback {{ISBN|0-14-031788-0}}

  • 1987: The Moons of Madeleine (Viking Kestrel) {{ISBN|0-670-81284-6}}

Penguin Canada paperback {{ISBN|0-14-032182-9}}

  • 1988: The Victory of Geraldine Gull (Macmillan of Canada) {{ISBN|0-7715-9281-7}}
  • 1990: Swimming Toward the Light (Macmillan of Canada) {{ISBN|0-7715-9975-7}}
  • 1993: Eiriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck (Macmillan of Canada) {{ISBN|0-7715-9009-1}}
  • 1995: The Dream Carvers (Viking Canada) {{ISBN|0-670-85858-7}} (Les sculpteurs de rêves, translated by Catherine Germain (P. Tisseyre, 2004) {{ISBN|2-89051-773-X}})

Penguin Canada paperback {{ISBN|0-14-038629-7}}

  • 2000: Latitudes of Melt (Knopf Canada) {{ISBN|0-676-97288-8}}

Vintage Canada paperback , {{ISBN|0-676-97291-8}}

  • 2002: The Word for Home (Viking Canada) {{ISBN|0-670-91121-6}}
  • 2005: An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada) {{ISBN|0-676-97655-7}}
  • 2015: The Birthday Lunch (Knopf Canada) {{ISBN|0-345-80956-4}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Joan Clark - Biography|url=http://waterfrontviews.acadiau.ca/flash/clark/clark_bio.htm|publisher=Acadia University|accessdate=10 November 2014}}

External links

  • Joan Clark's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060624034743/http://www.writersunion.ca/c/clark_j.htm Writers Union of Canada: Joan Clark]
  • Famous Canadians: Joan Clark
  • [https://www.mun.ca/marcomm/gazette/1997-98/June.4/convocation/c06-add.htm Memorial University: Address to convocation] (4 June 1998)
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