Don Dickinson

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Don Dickinson (* 1947 in Prince Albert , Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and teacher who received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1992 .

Life

Donald Percy Dickinson was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1947. He studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia , where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1979. He has taught English in high schools and college for over twenty years. Today he works as a freelance writer and lives in Lillooet , British Columbia .

He published his first stand-alone volume of short stories in 1987, Fighting the Upstream . His first novel, The Crew (1992), was on the shortlist of Books in Canada First Novel Award and won in 1992 to the BC Book Prizes belonging Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize . In this work, the alleged ease of the writing process was praised above all, which in reality is the real challenge if the story progresses with such energy and is still to remain legible: “Don Dickinson does so many things so well that a reader might be forgiven for thinking that the things he does are easy. They aren`t. It isn`t easy to tell a story that moves forward with as much energy and sheer readability as The Crew . "

The short story collection Blue Husbands , which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1991 , was also praised for the powerful drawing of its characters: “These well-crafted stories range in subject from a jilted husband's attempt to win his family back by breaking the world push-up record to the cause-and-effect relationship between one man's attempted suicide and the disabling of his rescuer's son ".

In the video production Peanuts (1994) one of the authors was responsible for the underlying texts for elementary school children, who were to be introduced to agricultural production and use of the peanut using the film .

In his second novel, the "Coming out of age" story Robbiestime (2000), Dickinson let some characters from Fighting the Upstream (1987) appear again. The story takes place in the 1950s, when eleven-year-old Robbie Hendershot from Wasagam , Saskatchewan , is confronted with the serious changes within his family and thus his own life. The Bildungsroman was praised by the critics for its imaginative, pictorial and sometimes drastic language and in places compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn .

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Short stories
Novels
Video
  • with David Moore, Tara Charendoff, Johnnie Chase & Felicity Williams: Peanuts . Films for the Humanities, Princeton 1994.

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gary Draper: Finally Joyous . In: Books in Canada. - The Canadian Review of Books. February 1994. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  2. The Porcupine's quill ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 9, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / porcupinesquill.ca
  3. Keith Garebian: Review of Robbiestime by Don Dickinson . In: Quill & Quire . July 2000. Retrieved July 9, 2012: "The strain of maintaining the singular narrative voice of a young boy sometimes shows, but it is checked by the diversions provided by an extensive cast of secondary characters, all of whom are believable, some very compelling. Dickinson powerfully renders the story's emotional blows (...) and his central character's rare courage, balancing Robbie's loss of faith in God with his newfound Huck Finn-style independence. "
  4. Brief portrait of the author on www.harpercollins.ca ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 9, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harpercollins.ca