词条 | Joan Walker |
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| name = Joan Walker | birth_name = Joan Sutter | image = | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | residence = Swastika, Ontario | occupation = | period = 1950s | nationality = English-Canadian | notableworks = Pardon My Parka, Repent at Leisure | spouse = | website = }} Joan Walker, née Sutter, was a Canadian writer.[1] She won two noted Canadian literary awards in the 1950s, the Stephen Leacock Award in 1954 for Pardon My Parka[2] and the Ryerson Fiction Award in 1957 for Repent at Leisure.[3] Pardon My Parka was a humorous memoir of her own experiences adapting to Canadian culture after moving to Canada as a war bride, while Repent at Leisure was a novel about a woman trapped in a troubled marriage. Born in London, England,[4] she worked as a fashion artist for Harrods, an editor for Amalgamated Press and Newnes-Pearson and as a feature journalism writer for Sunday Pictorial before marrying James Rankin Walker, a Canadian military officer in the Algonquin Regiment, in 1946.[3] She became a Canadian citizen in 1954.[3] The couple initially lived in Val-d'Or, Quebec,[1] although by the time of her Ryerson Award win they had moved to Swastika, Ontario;[3] in her later years, Walker and her husband lived in Oak Bay, British Columbia.[5] She was a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club and the Canadian Authors Association.[4] She contributed a humorous essay griping about unfair author contracts to an issue of Canadian Author & Bookman, the Canadian Authors Association's trade magazine, in 1960, creating a minor crisis for the organization as several publishing companies withdrew their advertising from the magazine in protest.[6] She published one further novel, Marriage of Harlequin (1962), a fictional account of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She was later a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail.[1] References1. ^1 2 "Optimism helps writers". Ottawa Citizen, January 21, 1970. {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Joan}}2. ^W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0802007619}}. p. 75. 3. ^1 2 3 "Joan Walker of Swastika Wins Fiction Award". Ottawa Journal, April 20, 1957. 4. ^1 Contemporary authors. First revision. Detroit, Gale Research Co. [c1967-1979], 44 v. 26-29 cm. {{ISSN|0190-3616}}. 5. ^Bourgeois-Doyle, Dick, What’s So Funny?: Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing. General Store Publishing House, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-77123-342-2}}. p. 40 6. ^Lyn Harrington, Syllables of Recorded Time: The Story of the Canadian Authors Association 1921-1981. Dundurn Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-88924-112-0}}. 14 : Year of birth missing|Year of death missing|English women novelists|Canadian women novelists|20th-century Canadian novelists|People from Val-d'Or|People from Kirkland Lake|Writers from Quebec|Writers from Ontario|Stephen Leacock Award winners|The Globe and Mail people|English emigrants to Canada|20th-century Canadian women writers|Women humorists |
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