| 词条 | David Adams Richards |
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| image = David Adams Richards - DanH-4021 (cropped).jpg | caption = Richards in 2014 | honorific-prefix = The Honourable | honorific-suffix = CM, ONB | name = David Adams Richards | birth_name = | office = Senator from New Brunswick | term_start = August 30, 2017 | term_end = | predecessor = John D. Wallace | successor = | nominator = Justin Trudeau | appointed = David Johnston | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|10|17}} | birth_place = Newcastle, New Brunswick | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Peggy McIntyre | party = Non-affiliated[1] | otherparty = | profession = Writer | awards = Governor General's Award Gemini Award Giller Prize }}David Adams Richards, CM, ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer[2] and member of the Canadian Senate.[3] BackgroundBorn in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, three credits shy of completing a BA.[4] After publishing a poetry chapbook in 1972 he won the Norma Bailey Award, a literary prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students, in 1974 for an excerpt from his novel manuscript The Coming of Winter, and the novel was published later that year as his fiction debut. CareerOver his career as a writer, Richards has published novels, stage plays, short stories and non-fiction work. His fiction typically addresses the lives and experiences of poor and working class residents of the Miramichi region of New Brunswick, exploring spiritual and philosophical themes influenced by Richards' Roman Catholic faith.[5] Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. On August 30, 2017, the appointment of Richards to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was announced.[3] On April 25, 2018, Richards resigned from the Independent Senators Group to sit as a non-caucusing independent senator.[6] Richards stressed that he had not felt pressured by the ISG, saying that he left because he wants a high degree of personal autonomy, citing how he never joined the Writers' Union of Canada or PEN Canada as an author. Richards also said that since Trudeau had appointed him as an independent, he felt it was his duty to be as independent as possible.[7] AwardsRichards has received numerous awards including two Gemini Awards for scriptwriting for Small Gifts and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down, the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace. Richards is one of only three writers to have won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award. He won the 1988 fiction award for Nights Below Station Street and the 1998 non-fiction award for Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for Mercy Among the Children. The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction.[8] In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the Canadian literary scene as an essayist, screenwriter and writer of fiction and non-fiction".[9] In 2011, Richards received the Matt Cohen Prize.[10] BibliographyRichards' papers are currently housed at the University of New Brunswick.[11] In 2014, Halifax singer-songwriter Dan MacCormack released an album of songs inspired by Richards' novels, called Symphony of Ghosts. The title was taken from a line in Mercy Among the Children.[12] Novels
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Personal lifeIn 1971, he married the former Peggy McIntyre. They have two sons, John Thomas Richards and Anton Richards, and reside in Fredericton {{as of|December 2012|lc=on}}.[13][14] References1. ^[https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/trudeau-appointed-senator-quits-group-of-independents-1.3901854 "Trudeau-appointed senator quits group of Independents"] CTV News, April 25, 2018. 2. ^"David Adams Richards". The Canadian Encyclopedia, April 10, 2008. 3. ^1 [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/30/trudeau-appoints-acclaimed-writer-david-adams-richards-to-senate.html "Trudeau appoints acclaimed writer David Adams Richards to Senate"]. Toronto Star, August 30, 2017. 4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/darichards.html | title=David Adams Richards | publisher=Athabasca University - Centre for Language and Literature | first=Vivian | last=Zenari | accessdate=10 March 2010}} 5. ^[https://www.catholicregister.org/item/23759-canadian-author-hides-message-of-hope-in-bleak-landscape "Canadian author hides message of hope in bleak landscape"]. The Catholic Register, December 4, 2016. 6. ^[https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/trudeau-appointed-senator-quits-group-of-independents-1.3901854 "Trudeau-appointed senator quits group of Independents"] CTV News, April 25, 2018. 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-senator-quits-independent-senators-group-to-be-totally-independent/|title=Senator quits Independent Senators Group to be ‘totally independent’|last=Chase|first=Steve|date=April 25, 2018|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=October 13, 2018|last2=Fife|first2=Robert|author-link2=Robert Fife}} 8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.umce.ca/wfnb/wnners.htm | title=24 Years of WFNB Literary Competition Winners! | publisher=Writers' Federation of New Brunswick | accessdate=10 March 2010}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469|title=Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|work=Office of the Secretary to the Governor General|accessdate=10 March 2010|date=30 December 2009}} 10. ^"New Brunswick author wins big prize". Times & Transcript, November 3, 2011. 11. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/richards/intro.html | title=David Adams Richards fonds | publisher=University of New Brunswick | accessdate=10 March 2010}} 12. ^Johns, Stephanie, "Dan MacCormack is book smart", The Coast, 13 November 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2016. 13. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385660952 | title=Books: The Friends of Meager Fortune | publisher=Random House | accessdate=10 March 2010 }} 14. ^{{cite news | url=http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/905583 | title=Adams Richards named to Order of Canada | publisher=The Daily Gleaner | date=31 December 2009 | accessdate=10 March 2010 }} External links
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