David Young (Canadian playwright)

David Samuel Young ( born July 17, 1946 in Oakville / Ontario ) is a Canadian writer.

Young studied at the University of Western Ontario. It was 1981 Employees of the publisher Coach House Press, which he was president from 1986 to 1996. In 1983, he wrote with Paul Ledoux the song " Fire", which was awarded the Chalmers Award and nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award. As a further joint work emerged in the following year "Love is Strange" ( according to the story of a stalker of singer Anne Murray ). The piece Glenn ( based on the biography of pianist Glenn Gould ) was premiered in 1992 by the Necessary Angel Theatre Company and Dora Mavor Moore Award for the nominated the Governor General's Award and the Chalmers Award. 2004 arose on the novel by Alistair MacLeod, the song "No Great Mischief".

Except dramas Young also wrote two novels and screenplays for film and television, including he worked on the script of the film " The English Patient " with the novel by Michael Ondaatje. He is a founding director of the Writers' Trust of Canada and curator of the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry.

Works

  • Fire, 1983
  • Love Is Strange: A Courtroom Romance, 1984 ( Still Desire You, 2008)
  • Glenn, 1992
  • Cheatin ' Hearts, 1994
  • Inexpressible Iceland, 1997
  • Cavies, 1999
  • Preschool, 1999
  • Two Beers For Three People, 1999
  • Visions Of Prostitutes, 1999
  • Antarctica, 2001
  • Clout, 2001
  • No Great Mischief, 2004

Swell

  • Gabrielle H. Cody: "The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama ," Volume 2, Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231144247, p 1510
  • David Young: " Clout ", Coach House Books, 2001, ISBN 9781552450772, p 119
  • Coach House Books - David Young
  • Doollee.com - David S. Young
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  • Born in 1946
  • Author
  • Drama
  • Novel, epic
  • Canadian
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