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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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.

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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Avustaja — 1,132 kappaletta
From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories (1990) — Avustaja — 129 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1986) — Avustaja — 111 kappaletta
Crackpot (1974) — Jälkisanat, eräät painokset74 kappaletta
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (1978) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories (1986) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
The Canadian Children's Treasury (1994) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
Great Canadian Short Stories (1971) — Avustaja — 53 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories (1982) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race (1983) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset10 kappaletta
Rachel, Rachel [1968 film] (1968) — Based on A Jest of God — 7 kappaletta
Sixteen by twelve;: Short stories by Canadian writers (1970) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Stone Angel [2007 film] (1964) — Original novel — 4 kappaletta
The Olden Days Coat [1981 short film] (1981) — Original story — 3 kappaletta
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta

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Group Read, January 2020: The Diviners, 1001 Books to read before you die (helmikuu 2020)
June Read: Margaret Laurence, Virago Modern Classics (heinäkuu 2017)

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