Dorothy Livesay

Dorothy Livesay ( born October 12, 1909 in Winnipeg, † 29 December 1996, Victoria) was a Canadian poet.

The daughter of the journalist, poet and translator, Florence Randal Livesay and journalists JFB Livesay attended a private girls' school in Toronto and studied from 1927 to 1931 at the University of Toronto. During this time, her first book of poems appeared Green pitcher. 1931-32 she continued her studies at the Sorbonne.

In the wake of the global economic crisis, Livesay left-wing student groups joined and became after graduation joined the Communist Party. From 1936 she worked in Vancouver for their journal New Frontier. After her marriage in 1937 with Duncan Macnair, a theosophist to Livesay away from communist ideas. Their children were born in 1940 and 1942.

After the sudden death Macnairs 1959 Livesay worked for UNESCO in Paris and went to 1963 as a teacher to Zambia. Upon her return to Canada she took up her studies again in 1964 and earned a master's degree at the University of British Columbia. After that, she worked for ten years as a writer in residence at various universities in Canada.

In addition to several honorary doctorates Livesey in 1987 received the Order of Canada in 1992 and the Order of British Columbia. Her last years she spent on Galiano Iceland near Victoria.

The existing since 1986 B.C. Prize for Poetry of the BC Book Prizes in 1989 it was renamed in honor of Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in.

Works

  • Green Pitcher, 1928
  • Day And Night, 1944
  • Poems for People, 1947
  • Call My People Home, 1950
  • The Colour of God 's Face, 1964
  • The Unquiet Bed, 1967
  • A Winnipeg Childhood, 1973
  • Ice Age, 1975
  • The Raw Edges: Voices from Our Time, 1981
  • The Phases of Love, 1983
  • The Self - Completing Tree: Selected Poems, 1986
  • Beginnings, 1988
  • Journey With My Selves: A Memoir, 1909-1963, 1991
  • Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, 1998

Swell

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Livesay, Dorothy
  • Unitarian Universalist Biographical Dictionary - Dorothy Livesay
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Carrier of the Order of British Columbia
  • Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1909
  • Died in 1996
  • Woman
  • Member of the Royal Society of Canada
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