Douglas Glover (writer)

Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published five short story collections, four novels (including Elle which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), a book of essays called Notes Home from a Prodigal Son, and The Enamoured Knight, a book-length meditation on Don Quixote and novel form.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971-72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, until 1979. In 1982, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Since the early 1990s, Glover has lived in Wilton, New York teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Skidmore College, Colgate University, and the University of Albany. He was the 2005 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge and Utah State University. From October, 1994, to October, 1996, he was host of a weekly radio interview program called The Book Show at WAMC in Albany, NY. From 1994 to 2006, he edited the annual anthology Best Canadian Stories. In 2010, he founded the online literary magazine, Numéro Cinq.

He has two sons Jacob Glover and Jonah Glover.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Awards and recognition

• 1984: finalist, Books in Canada First Novel Award for Precious
• 1991: finalist, Governor General's Award for Fiction for A Guide to Animal Behaviour
• 2003: winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction for Elle
• 2004: Elle was the English to French translation finalist for the Governor General's Award for Translation
• 2005: finalist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for Elle
• 2006: Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award

Bibliography

• 1981: The Mad River (Black Moss Press) 0-88753-080-X
• 1983: Precious (Seal Books, reprinted by Goose Lane) ISBN 0-86492-414-3
• 1985: Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon (Talonbooks) ISBN 0-88922-228-2
• 1988: The South Will Rise at Noon (Viking, reprinted by Goose Lane) ISBN 0-86492-408-9
• 1991: A Guide to Animal Behaviour (Goose Lane) ISBN 0-86492-136-5
• 1993: The Life and Times of Captain N. (Knopf, reprinted by Goose Lane) 0-86492-297-3
• 1999: Notes Home from a Prodigal Son (Oberon) 0 7780 1135 6
• 2000: 16 Categories of Desire (Goose Lane) ISBN 0-86492-314-7
• 2003: Elle (Goose Lane) ISBN 0-86492-492-5
• 2003: Bad News of the Heart (Dalkey Archive) ISBN 1-56478-286-7
• 2005: The Enamoured Knight (Dalkey Archive) ISBN 1-56478-404-5

References

1. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved Oct 3, 2011.
2. ^ Stone, Bruce The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, Oberon Press, Ottawa, 2004.
3. ^ Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 23, Gale Research, 1996. pp. 81-97.

Further Reading

• The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, Bruce Stone, Oberon Press, Ottawa, 2004.

• “Elle de Douglas Glover: Une satire ménippéene,” Haijo Westra and Adam Westra, Littoral, Numéro 5, autumne 2010. English translation Numéro Cinq Feb 23, 2011.

• “Visited Graves in Colonial Cemeteries: The Resurrection of Marguerite de Roberval,” María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, Canada Exposed/Le Canada a decouvert, Peter Lang Publishing, Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford, 2009.

• “A Canadian Bear, A Woman’s Heart: Douglas Glover’s Elle and Marian Engel’s Bear,” Christl Verduyn, TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 1, 2008.

• “Self as Garbled Translation: Douglas Glover’s Elle/Elle,” Christl Verduyn, Traduire depuis les marges/Translating from the Margins, Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, Glen Nichols and Sherry Simon, eds. Montreal: Edition Nota bene, 2008.

• "Surviving the Metaphorical Condition in Elle : Douglas Glover's Impersonation of the First French Female in Canada," María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, Canon Disorders: Gendered Perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States, Darias Beautell, Eva, and María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, eds., Ed. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja/Universidad de La Laguna, 2007

• “Structural Unity in Fiction,” Sandra Novack, Descant 133, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2006.

• "I am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover's Elle," Pedro Carmona Rodríguez, Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005. CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 539-45. Reprinted in Numéro Cinq Mar 4, 2011.

• “Romancing the ‘Mysterious Bonds of Syntax’: Allegory and the Ethics of Desire in Douglas Glover's ‘My Romance’ and ‘Iglaf and Swan’,” Adam Beardsworth, Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 30.2, 2005.

• “Writing from the Sidelines: Peripheral Critique in Glover’s ‘State of the Nation’,” Adam Beardsworth, Short Story New Series, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2005.

• “'...[D]estined always to be on the edge of things': Prolegomenon to a Dialogue of Transdisciplinary and Curriculum Theory," Patrick Howard, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol. 20. Iss. 4 p.45, Winter 2004.

• “Becoming Masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n-1 Dimensions,” Cheryl Cowdy, Henry Street, The Graduate Review of Literary Studies, Vol. 8:1, Spring 1999. Reprinted in Numéro Cinq Nov 2, 2011

• “Historical Fiction and Douglas Glover's The Life and Times of Captain N," Don Sparling, Brno Studies In English] 23, 1997.

External links

• Douglas Glover
• Goose Lane: Douglas Glover
• Numéro Cinq

Persondata
Name	Glover, Douglas
Alternative names	Douglas H. Glover
Short description	Canadian author, winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction, author of Elle
Date of birth	14 November 1948
Place of birth	Simcoe, Ontario
Date of death
Place of death