Margaret Horsfield
Margaret Horsfield (born December 1, 1953 in Port Alberni , British Columbia ) is a Canadian non-fiction author and journalist .
Life
Horsfield attended high school in Terrace , British Columbia, Canada, and graduated in 1974 with a BA in English from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , British Columbia . from. In 1978 she obtained her MA . in Shakespeare Studies from the University of Birmingham in the UK . Since 1984 Margaret Horsfield has written and radioed over 40 radio documentaries. They were broadcast on BBC Radio and CBC / Radio-Canada . She wrote the nonfiction books Her Beyond Bethlehem and Beyond Golgotha , published in 1989 and 1993, together with her father, the Anglican clergyman Peter Horsfield. The English-language book Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework , published in 1997, was published by Rütten & Loening in 1999 with a German translation under the title The last dirt: From the joys of housework . In 2000, Margaret Horsfield's book Cougar Annie's Garden won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize . She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Works
- 1989: Her Beyond Bethlehem, CBC Enterprises, with Peter Horsfield
- 1993: Beyond Golgotha, Brechin Books, with Peter Horsfield, ISBN 9780969700807
- 1997: Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework, Four Estate Limited, ISBN 978-0788197789
- German 1999: The last dirt: From the joys of housework, Rütten & Loening , ISBN 978-3352006210
- 1999: Cougar Annie's Garden, Salal Books, ISBN 0-9697008-1-4
- 2008: Voices from the Sound, Salal Books, ISBN 978-0969700821
- 2014: Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History, Harbor Publishing, ISBN 978-1-55017-681-0
Awards and nominations
- 2000: Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for Cougar Annie's Garden
- 2000: Nomination for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for Cougar Annie's Garden
- 2009: Nomination for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for Voices from the Sound
Web links
- Biography on abc bookword
- Margaret Horsfield on Harbor Publishing
- Margaret Horsfield , voicesfromthesound.com
- Author writes about love for the West Coast , interview with Margaret Horsfield on canada.com, November 13, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize on canadianauthors.net
- ^ Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize on canadianauthors.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horsfield, Margaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian non-fiction author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Alberni , British Columbia |