Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier, OC ( born May 24, 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada ) is a Canadian poet and writer, as well as Head of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Victoria. In her literary career, she was able to win several literary prizes: including the 1992 Governor General's Awards, the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry, 2000, the BC Book Prizes belonging Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and in 2010 the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize. According to the Canadian literature also considers it one of the " prairie poets".

Life

Lorna Crozier was born in 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. She attended the University of Saskatchewan, where she met her Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and the University of Alberta, where she made ​​literature their 1980 Master of Arts in English. In Saskatoon, she married around 1970, a high school teacher named Uher and settled in the south of the city. Before she published poems and short stories, Crozier worked as an English teacher at a high school and the Student Advisory Service. During these years, her first poem was published in 1974 in the literary magazine Grain. By the end of 1978 she had a successful time as a writer and divorced Uher, we would just live with the writer Patrick Lane together.

In addition, she taught creative writing at the associated with the University of British Columbia Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival. Lorna Crozier served as Writer -in- Residence at the Cypress Hills Community College in 1983, the University of Lethbridge ( 1987), the Douglas College, British Columbia ( 1989), the Regina Public Library and the University of Toronto in 1989.

The author has published 15 works to date, which are typically focused on human relationships, the natural environment, language, memory and perception. With her ​​long-time partner Patrick Lane has published three works: No Longer Two People ( 1979), Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (1995) and Breathing Fire 2 ( 2004).

Your poetry collection What the Living Will not Let Go ( 1999) combined in a narrative structure. Some poems followed the lives of two families of the respective individual birth to death: Crozier's own family and an unnamed, living in the shadow family who were caught up in a dark and hard-hitting story. Other poems dealt with the mental life of foxes or presented the cat that ate Thomas Hardy's heart. The poetry collection was praised as a moving collection that celebrated the joy of life, while they named the loss and beauty simultaneously. 2000 was What the Living Will not Let Go the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize win.

The next literary prize for a literary work, the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize should not get 2010 for her poetry, but for the cautious, no effort -saving portrait of her hometown and her family in Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir (2009). In it she described in vivid images Swift Current, with its single main street, two high schools and three beer bars - where her father spent most of his evenings. Resolutely she wrote about the grief and shame caused by poverty and alcoholism. In the center of their very well-received by the critics as a literary echo of WO Mitchell, Sinclair Ross and Margaret Laurence book the deep love was to her mother Peggy. The stories of daily life - some amusing, some heartbreaking - followed alternating with prose poems. So Lorna Grozier belongs to the handful of writers who won a BC Book Prize in two categories.

Furthermore, Lorna Crozier won the 1992 Governor General's Awards, the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry, the Gold Medal of the National Magazine Award and the first prize at the National CBC Literary Competition. In addition, she received the from the University of Victoria Distinguished Professor Award and the University of Regina awarded her an honorary doctorate of law in 2004.

The writer gave some benefit readings of their work for charitable organizations such as the Canadian SPCA, Wintergreen Studios, The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, the Victoria READ Society, and PEERS, a society that wants to avoid street prostitution. Except for the Antarctic it has on every continent organizes readings and on 19 May 2005 Lorna Crozier recited a poem for the British Queen Elizabeth II as part of the centennial celebration of Saskatchewan. Her works have been translated into French, Spanish and Slovenian. Clive Holden turned it over in 1993 a documentary entitled The language of angels: Lorna Crozier, award winning poet: a documentary.

Since 2009 she is a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2011 and Officer of the Order of Canada. In the award - justification is formulated her services to poetry and education in British Columbia as follows: " Lorna Crozier is one of our country 's pre-eminent poets. Over the past 35 years, her award-winning work, Which frequently celebrates the prairie landscape and its people, Has enriched the Canadian literary scene and published in several languages ​​HAS BEEN. As of educator she has helped young writers achieve achievement excellence and recognition. She so generously Employs her talents in support of various social causes, including literacy, animal rights and the environment. "

The writer lived with her partner Patrick Lane for decades in Victoria, now in Sanich, British Columbia.

Work

  • Inside is the Sky. 1976 ( as Lorna Uher )
  • Crow's Black Joy. 1979 ( as Lorna Uher )
  • Humans and Other Beasts. 1980 ( as Lorna Uher )
  • No Longer Two People. 1981 ( with Patrick Lane )
  • The Weather. 1983
  • The Garden Going On Without Us. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1985, ISBN 978-0-7710-2475-7 ( nominated for the Governor General's Award )
  • Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1988, ISBN 978-0-7710-2476-4, ISBN 978-0-7710-2477-1 ( nominated for the Governor General's Award )
  • Inventing the Hawk. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1992 ( winner of a Governor General 's Award for poetry and the Pat Lowther Award 1992)
  • A Saving Grace: Collected Poems. 1996
  • What the Living Will not Let Go. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7710-2481-8 (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2000)
  • Apocrypha of Light. 2002
  • Bones in Their Wings: Ghazals. 2003
  • Whetstone. , 2005.
  • Bones in Their Wings: Ghazals. 2006
  • The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7710-2468-9
  • Small Beneath the Sky. 2009
  • Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir. Greystone Books, Vancouver / Berkeley in 2009, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-1-55365-577-0 (winner of the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize 2010)
  • A Sudden Radiance. 1987 ( with Gary Hyland )
  • Breathing Fire. Harbour, Madeira Park, British Columbia, 1995 ( with Patrick Lane ) ISBN 978-1-55017-125-9.
  • Desire in seven voices. Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto 1999, ISBN 978-1-55054-805-1.
  • Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2001, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 978-1-55365-115-4 ( with Patrick Lane )
  • Breathing Fire 2 2004 ( with Patrick Lane )
  • Before the first word: the poetry of Lorna Crozier (along with Catherine Hunter), Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario 2005, ISBN 978-0-88920-489-8.

Awards and nominations

1992 in literature 2000 in literature 2010 in literature Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Charity (practice) Victoria (British Columbia) The Malahat Review Patricia Young Brian Brett The Globe and Mail Joe Rosenblatt Charles Lillard Barry McKinnon Jan Zwicky Daphne Marlatt Bruce Hutchison Doris Shadbolt Scott Wilson (actor) Peter C. Newman Charles Montgomery (writer)
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