Austin Clarke

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the Canadian novelist|the Irish poet|Austin Clarke (poet)

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, CM , O.Ont (born 26 July 1934) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St. James, Barbados, in 1955 Clarke moved to Canada, where he attended the University of Toronto. He was a reporter in the Ontario communities of Timmins and Kirkland Lake, before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and eventually became a freelance journalist. In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He won the Giller Prize for "The Polished Hoe" in 2002, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003.

Bibliography

Novels

*"The Survivors of the Crossing" - 1964
*"Amongst Thistles and Thorns" - 1965
*"The Meeting Point" - 1967
*"Storm of Fortune" - 1973
*"The Bigger Light" - 1975
*"The Prime Minister" - 1977
*"Proud Empires" - 1988
*"The Origin of Waves" - 1997 (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
*"The Question" - 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award in 2000)
*"The Polished Hoe" - 2002 (winner of the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize)
*"More" - 2008 - To be released August 2008

hort stories

*"When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks" - 1971
*"When Women Rule" - 1985
*"Nine Men Who Laughed" - 1986
*"In This City" 1992
*"There Are No Elders" - 1993
*"Choosing His Coffin - 2003

Non-fiction

*"Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack" 1980
*"Public Enemies: Police Violence and Black Youth" - 1992
*"A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon" - 1994
*"Pigtails 'n' Breadfruit" - 1999

Readings

[http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/pro_canada_heritage_series.jsp Toronto Public Library's Canada Council Heritage Series]

Malvern Branch (Toronto Public Library)

30 Sewells Rd.

Toronto ON

416-396-8969

"May 28, 7 - 8:30 p.m."

Cedarbrae Branch (Toronto Public Library)

545 Markham Rd.

Toronto ON

416-396-8850

"May 30, 7 - 8:30 p.m"

External links

* [http://www.Canadianimmigrant.org/IMMIGRANTSTORIES/FamousCanadianImmigrantWriters.htm Famous Canadian Immigrant Authors]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001659 Austin Clarke's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=3854 Order of Canada Citation]