Morley Callaghan

Morley Callaghan, CC, O.Ont ( born September 22, 1903 in Toronto, Ontario; † August 25, 1990 ) was a Canadian writer.

Life

The son of English immigrants studied law in Toronto, without, however, to take a legal profession. Instead, he worked in the twenties for the Toronto Daily Star, where he met Ernest Hemingway. As this also wrote Callaghan concise, realistic and psychologically insightful short stories. End of the twenties was included in 1929 for a few months also the group of modern writers of the Montparnasse in Paris, to the next Hemingway, among others, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. In 1963 Callaghan these years - including a boxing match, which he delivered with Hemingway, where he defeated him clear.

Callaghan's novels and short stories are often about characters with a strong Catholic tradition, but injured self-esteem. Among the first works include Strange Fugitive 1928 A Native Argosy 1929, A Broken Journey in 1928 and search is my Beloved 1934. During the following years until 1950, he wrote largely journalistic texts. When his masterpiece is considered the novel The Loved and the Lost from 1951 to the later works include: . The Many Colored Coat ( 1960), A Passion in Rome ( 1961), Stories ( 1967), A Fine and Private Place ( 1975) A Time for Judas (1983 ), Our Lady of the Snows (1985) and A Wild Old Man down the Road (1988).

Callaghan was awarded several times for his works (including the Lome Pierce Medal). 1982 Morley Callaghan was appointed Member of the Order of Canada. In 1986, he received from the City of Toronto the Toronto Book Awards for Our Lady of the Snows.

He had two children, Michael and Barry; the latter was himself a writer. Callaghan died after a brief illness at the age of 87 years.

Work

  • Strange Fugitive - 1928
  • It's Never Over - 1930
  • A Broken Journey - 1932
  • Such Is My Beloved - 1934
  • They Shall Inherit the Earth - 1935
  • More Joy in Heaven - 1937
  • The Many Colored Coat - 1960 (reprinted as The Man with the Coat, 1988)
  • A Passion in Rome - 1961
  • A Fine and Private Place - 1975
  • A Time for Judas - 1983
  • Our Lady of the Snows - 1985 ( based on his novel The Enchanted Pimp )
  • A Wild Old Man on the Road - 1988
  • No Man 's Meat - 1931
  • Luke Baldwin's Vow - 1948 ( new edition of The Vow, 2006)
  • The Varsity Story - 1948
  • An Autumn Penitent - 1973 ( and In His Own Country )
  • Close to the Sun Again - 1977
  • No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp - 1978
  • A Native Argosy - 1929
  • Now That April's Here and Other Stories - 1936
  • Morley Callaghan 's Stories - 1959
  • Stories - 1967
  • The Morley Callaghan Reader - 1997
  • The New Yorker Stories - 2001
  • The Complete Stories ( four volumes ) - 2003
  • The sentimentalists
  • That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Some Others - 1963
  • Winter - 1974
  • Turnagain Home ( based on the novel They Shall Inherit the Earth, produced in New York in 1940, and listed under the title Going Home in Toronto 1950)
  • Just Ask George (produced in Toronto, 1940)
  • To Tell the Truth (produced in Toronto, 1949)
  • Season of the Witch - 1976

Adaptations

  • The Cap (1984 )
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