Joan Clark

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. [http://admin.acadiau.ca/alumni/connections1.html] 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. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.

Clark served on the jury at the 2001 Giller Prize.

Clark 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 IMPAC Award, "An Audience of Chairs"

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

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0020066 Joan Clark's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/c/clark_j.htm Writers Union of Canada: Joan Clark]
* [http://www.famouscanadians.net/books/c/clarkjoan/ Famous Canadians: Joan Clark]
* [http://www.mun.ca/marcomm/gazette/1997-98/June.4/convocation/c06-add.htm Memorial University: Address to convocation] (4 June 1998)