Fred Wah

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Frederick James Wah OC (born January 23, 1939 in Swift Current , Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a Canadian poet , writer and former university professor.

Life

Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in inland ( West Kootenay ) British Columbia . His Canadian born father grew up in China as the son of a Chinese father and a Scottish - Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother, on the other hand, was a Swedish- born Canadian who came to the country at the age of six. In a certain way, his ethnic influences shape his writings.

Wah studied literature and music at the University of British Columbia . While studying there, was one of the founding editors and authors of the underground magazine TISH . He later graduated from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque , the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (Bachelor of Arts - English Literature and Music - University of British Columbia / Master of Arts - Literature and Linguistics - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York). In the following years he gave lectures at Selkirk College , the David Thompson University Center , and the University of Calgary .

Well known for his work on literary magazines and on a smaller scale , he has worked as a writing editor for Open Letter since its inception, involved in the editing of West Coast Line , and with Frank Davey he edited the first online literary magazine: SwiftCurrent . Fred Wah won the 1985 Governor General's Award for his book Waiting for Saskatchewan .

After 40 years, Wah retired from teaching and now lives with his wife Pauline Butling in Vancouver , British Columbia . He continues to write and appear at public readings of his poems. In 2006/2007 he was the Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University , in Burnaby , British Columbia. On December 11, 2011, the Canadian Parliament elected him Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate for the period 2012/2013 . Fred Wah is the fifth poet to receive this honor.

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  • Lardeau (1965)
  • Mountain (1967)
  • Among (1972)
  • Tree (1972)
  • Earth (1974)
  • Pictograms from the Interior of BC (1975)
  • Selected Poems: Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek (1980). Talonbooks: Vancouver, BC. ISBN 978-0-88922-177-2 .
  • Owners Manual (1981)
  • Breathin 'My Name With a Sigh (1981). Talonbooks: Vancouver, BC. ISBN 978-0-88922-188-8 .
  • Grasp The Sparrow's Tail (1982)
  • Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
  • The Swift Current Anthology (1986; edited with Frank Davey)
  • Rooftops (1987)
  • Music at the Heart of Thinking (1987)
  • Limestone Lakes Utaniki (1989)
  • So Far (1991)
  • Alley Alley Home Free (1992)
  • Diamond Grill. Edmonton: NeWest, 1996.
  • "Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity" (2000). Critical Writing 1984-1999. Edmonton: NeWest.
  • Isadora Blue (La Mano Izquierda Impressora, Victoria, 2005)
  • Articulations (Nomados, Vancouver, 2007)
  • Sentenced to Light (2008). Talonbooks: Vancouver, BC. ISBN 978-0-88922-577-0 .
  • is a door (2009). Talonbooks: Vancouver, BC. ISBN 978-0-88922-620-3 .
  • "The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah" (2009). Selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri. Wilfrid Laurier University Press: Waterloo, ONT. ISBN 978-1-55458-046-0 .

Awards

  • Waiting For Saskatchewan - 1985 (1985 Governor General's Award for poetry)
  • So Far - 1991 (1982 Stephanson Award for Poetry)
  • Diamond Grill - 1996 (Writers Guild of Alberta Howard O'Hagan Prize for Short Fiction)
  • "Faking It" - 2001 (Gabrielle Roy Prize for Criticism Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures)
  • "Is A Door" 2010 ( Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jilang Su, Billy KL So, Gungwu Wang, John Fitzgerald, Jianli Huang, James K. Chin, Contributors Billy KL So, John Fitzgerald [2003]: Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order . Hong Kong University Press ,, ISBN 9622095909 , p. 323.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2005 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ryerson.ca
  3. ↑ Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy [2005]: Poets Talk . University of Alberta , ISBN 0888644310 , p 143rd
  4. ↑ http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/poet/index.asp?Language=E¶m=2&id=1#appointment
personal data
SURNAME Wah, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wah, Frederick James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet, writer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Swift Current , Saskatchewan , Canada