Clark Blaise

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Clark Blaise OC (born April 10, 1940 in Fargo , North Dakota , United States ) is a Canadian writer of American descent who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 1979 .

Life

Born in Fargo, North Dakota to Canadian parents, he currently lives in San Francisco , California . Since 1963 he has been married to the writer Bharati Mukherjee , with whom he has two sons. A graduate of the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop , he was also director of an international creative writing program at Concordia University . When he lived in Montréal in the early 1970s , he was one of those writers who belonged to the acclaimed Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group , along with writers Raymond Fraser , Hugh Hood , John Metcalf and Ray Smith .

In 2009 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University".

His works have so far been translated into five languages. His successful non-fiction book Die Tähmung der Zeit is in German. Sir Sandford Fleming and the Invention of Universal Time .

plant

Short stories
  • A North American Education . 1973
  • Tribal Justice . 1974
  • Here & Now. (with John Metcalf) Oberon Press 1977
    • from it, transl. Elfi Schneidbach: The son of a traveling salesman. Story, in: Columbus and the giant lady. Structure atv, Berlin 1992, pp. 148-165
  • South , in Ed. Robert Weaver , Small wonders. New stories by twelve distinguished Canadian writers. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , Toronto 1982, pp. 23 - 30 (first a radio feature in 1981)
  • Resident alien . 1986
  • Man and His World . 1992
  • Southern Stories . 2000
  • Pittsburgh Stories . 2001
  • Montreal Stories . 2003
  • The Meagre Tarmac . 2011 (Longlist 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize )
Novels
memoirs
  • Days and Nights in Calcutta . 1977, together with Bharati Mukherjee
  • I had a father . 1992.
Non-fiction
  • The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy . 1987 (together with Bharati Mukherjee) on the bomb attack on Air India Flight 182
  • Time lord. Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time . 2000
    • Übers. Hans Günter Holl: The taming of time. Sir Sandford Fleming and the Invention of Universal Time . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 3-10-007109-3

Awards

  • 1979: Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Lunar Attractions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada . In: Office of the Secretary to the Governor General . January 30, 2012. Accessed December 30, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Blaise, Clark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer of American descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Fargo , North Dakota