Danuta Gleed

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Danuta Gleed (* 1946 in Lusaka , Northern Rhodesia , † December 11, 1996 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was an African-born Canadian writer of Polish descent, who mainly wrote short stories and who was established in honor of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award .

Life

Danuta Gleed was born in Rhodesia and grew up in a British refugee camp in Kenya , where she also spent her early childhood. In 1958 she moved with her family to England , later to Canada , where she studied English literature and married her husband John Gleed.

She completed her literary studies in one year with Frances Itani , Audrey Thomas , Bryan Moon and Rita Donovan . As a literary form, she preferred the short story, with her own stories often set against a Polish background. Her works appeared in various literary magazines and won several competitions. Her story Bones was nominated for the Journey Prize in 1996, although she had passed away at the time of the announcement. The short story collection One of the Cosen was published posthumously by BuschekBooks 1997 after her untimely death at the age of 50 , edited by Frances Itani and Susan Zettell.

Afterlife

Her husband John Gleed then founded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 1998 to honor the memory of his wife and her preferred form of literature with this foundation. The proceeds from Danuta Gleed's own collection of short stories, One for the Chosen, will continue to flow into the award fund . The honor is given annually by the Writers 'Union of Canada , i.e. the Canadian writers' association. This literature prize honors the first collection of short stories that a Canadian writer has published in English . Her son, the painter Jonathan Gleed (* 1977) and his wife Christine, named their daughter, born in 2007, after his mother Violet Danuta Gleed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the information from the Library of Congress
  2. ↑ http://www.yourottawaregion.com/print/1274528
  3. ↑ http://stlawrencepiks.com/aboutus.html
  4. ↑ Selected with Olive Senior. The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-7710-4427-5 (v.8)
  5. ^ Canadian-writers-collective
  6. ↑ Official website of the Danuta Gleed Literary Awards with a list of its winners ( memento of the original from September 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 2, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.writersunion.ca
  7. ↑ http://jonathanmgleed.blogspot.de/
  8. ↑ gleedsofvictora
  9. ^ Short biography Susan Zettell . On: www.signature-editions.com. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gleed, Danuta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer of Polish descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lusaka , Northern Rhodesia
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1996
Place of death Ottawa , Ontario