Fred Wah

Susan Rudy (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
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)

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Born 23 Jan 1939
Activity 1960-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Fred Wah is one of the most important and innovative writers and critics to have emerged from western Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Since 1965, Wah has published twenty-four books of poetry, the first entitled

Lardeau

(1965), the most recent,

Sentenced to Light

(2008).

Waiting For Saskatchewan

(1985) won him a Governor-General’s Literary Award in 1986 and

So Far

was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry in 1992.

Diamond Grill

(1996), his “biotext” about hybridity and growing up in a small-town Chinese-Canadian café, was published in 1996 and won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction. His most recent work involves image-text collaborations with visual artists. His book of essays, published under the title

Faking It:

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Citation: Rudy, Susan. "Fred Wah". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 April 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4571, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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