Gwendolyn MacEwen

Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1 Sep 1941
Died 29 Nov 1987
Activity 1961-1987

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet
Story-writer

Resources

MacEwen's Works

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Multilingual autodidact and the first Vice-President of the Flat Earth Society, Gwendolyn MacEwen was a Canadian practitioner of several literary forms, though she is primarily regarded as a poet who was twice awarded the Governor General’s Award for Poetry: for

The Shadow-Maker

(1969) and for

Afterworlds

(1987: posthumous award). She received the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Award for her contribution to the arts in 1977. Born in Toronto on 1 September 1941, MacEwen was an autodidact with a gift for learning languages and an appetite for combining mythology with philosophy in dramatic poetic fashion. She authored more than twenty books published between 1961 and 1987, as well as writing numerous radio dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation between 1964 and 1967. MacEwen died in…

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Citation: MacDonald, Tanis. "Gwendolyn MacEwen". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 November 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2849, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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