Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise OC ( born April 10, 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States ) is a Canadian writer of U.S. origin, which in 1979 won the Books in Canada First Novel Award.

Life

In Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Canadian parents, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. Since 1963, he is married to the writer Bharati Mukherjee, with whom he has two sons. As a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa he was also director of an international writing program for Creative Writing at Concordia University. When he lived in the early 1970s in Montreal, he was in addition to the authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith is one of those writers who belonged to the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

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

His work has been translated into five languages. In German translation only is its successful non-fiction book The Taming of the time. Sir Sandford Fleming and the invention of the World (2001) before.

Work

  • A North American Education. In 1973.
  • Tribal Justice. In 1974.
  • Resident Alien. In 1986.
  • Man and His World. In 1992.
  • Southern Stories., 2000.
  • Pittsburgh Stories., 2001.
  • Montreal Stories. 2003
  • The meager tarmac., 2011. (Long List 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize )
  • Lunar Attractions. 1979 ( winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award ).
  • Lust. In 1984.
  • If I Were Me 1997
  • Days and Nights in Calcutta. 1977, along with Bharati Mukherjee
  • I had a Father. In 1992.
  • The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy. 1987 ( along with Bharati Mukherjee ) to the bombing of Air-India Flight 182
  • Time lord. Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time. , 2000. The Taming of the time. Sir Sandford Fleming and the invention of the age. Translation Hans Günter Holl, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-007109-3

Awards

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