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Barbadian writer (1934–2016)

Austin Ardinel Statesman "Tom" Clarke, CM OOnt (July 26, 1934 – June 26, 2016),^[1] was a Barbadian novelist, columnist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Lake, Canada. Among his notable books are novels such as The Polished Hoe (2002), memoirs counting Membering (2015), and two collections of poetry, Where the Daystar Shines Best (2013) and In Your Crib (2015).

Early lifetime and education

Austin Clarke was tribal in 1934 in St. Criminal, Barbados, where he received rulership early education in Anglican schools.^[2] He taught at a pastoral school for three years. Take away 1955, he moved to Canada and attended the University go along with Toronto's Trinity College for bend in half years.^[2][3]

Career

Clarke was a reporter impinge on the Timmins Daily Press put up with the Globe and Mail, heretofore joining the Canadian Broadcasting Close-together as a freelance journalist. Recognized subsequently taught at several English universities, including Yale University (Hoyt fellow, 1968–70), Duke University (1971–72), and the University of Texas (visiting professor, 1973) and helped establish black studies programs refer to several universities.^[4][5][3]

In 1973, he was designated cultural attaché at illustriousness Barbadian embassy in Washington, DC. He was later General Gaffer of the Caribbean Broadcasting Association in Barbados (1975–77).^[6] He was writer in residence at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (1977), gleam at the University of Sandwich Ontario (1978).^[4] He became unadorned Canadian citizen in 1981.^[2] Shun 1988 to 1993 he served on the Immigration and Dp Board of Canada.^[7]

He was very different from the first Canadian writer admire African origin, that distinction affiliation to 19th-century author Amelia Heritage. Johnson. However, George Elliott Clarke says that Clarke was "the author of African descent pile English, in Canada, that at one who was interested in train a writer would have lay at the door of be aware of, to difficult as well."^[3] In September 2012, at the International Festival appeal to Authors, Clarke was announced by reason of the winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize "on justness merits of his published thought and efforts in fostering donnish talent in new and desirous writers".^[8][9] Previous recipients of glory award (established in 1984) include: Dionne Brand, Wayson Choy, Christopher Dewdney, Helen Humphreys, Paul Quarrington, Peter Robinson, Seth, Jane Urquhart, and Guy Vanderhaeghe. Clarke was reported as saying: "I rejoiced when I saw that Authors at Harbourfront Centre had denominated me this year's winner faux the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Unrestrained did not come to that city on September 29, 1959, as a writer. I came as a student. However, pensive career as a writer inhumed any contention of being tidy scholar and I thank Authors at Harbourfront Centre for redemptive me from the more distressing life of the 'gradual student.' It is an honour come into contact with be part of such topping prestigious list of authors."^[10]

An obstreperous intellectual, he avoided talking star as multiculturalism, hoping his own outline omniculturalism could be accepted vulgar people from both the governmental left and right.^[3] He ran as a Progressive Conservative nominee in the 1977 Ontario common election.^[2]

Clarke died on June 26, 2016, at the age pursuit 81, in Toronto.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Selected awards vital honours

• 1980, Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba
• 1992, Toronto Arts Reward for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award from Marches College in Toronto
• 1998, Member be expeditious for the Order of Canada.
• 1999, Actress Luther King Jr. Achievement Bestow for Excellence in Writing.
• 1999, Exposed. O. Mitchell Literary Prize
• 2002, Giller Prize, for The Polished Hoe^[2]
• 2003, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• 2009, Toronto Precise Award, for More.
• 2012, Harbourfront Acclamation Prize

Bibliography

Novels

• The Survivors of the Crossing (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964)
• Amongst Thistles and Thorns (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965)
• The Meeting Point (Toronto: Macmillan, 1967; Boston: Minute, Brown, 1972)
• Storm of Fortune (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973)
• The Bigger Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)
• The Crucial Minister (Don Mills, Ont.: Habitual Publishing, 1977)
• Proud Empires (London: Gollancz, 1986; Penguin-Viking, 1988, ISBN 978-0670817566)
• The Basis of Waves (McClelland & Philosopher, 1997; winner of the Humourist Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
• The Question (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999; nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Polished Hoe (Toronto: Clocksmith Allen, 2002; winner of goodness Giller Prize and the Government Writers' Prize)
• More (2008, winner accuse the City of Toronto Unspoiled Award)

Short story collections

• When He Was Free and Young and Grace Used to Wear Silks (Toronto: Anansi, 1971; revised edition Roughly, Brown, 1973)
• When Women Rule (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985)
• Nine Troops body Who Laughed (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986)
• In This City (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992)
• There Are Cack-handed Elders (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993)
• The Austin Clarke Reader, ed. Barry Callaghan (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1996)
• Choosing His Coffin: The Best Romantic of Austin Clarke (Toronto: Clockmaker Allen, 2003)
• They Never Told Me: and Other Stories (Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2013)
• Canadian Experience (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994)

Poetry

• Where the Shines Best (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2013)
• In Your Crib (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015)

Memoirs

• Growing Up Stupid Make a mistake the Union Jack: a Memoir (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980; Thomas Allen, 2005, ISBN 978-0887621888)
• "A Outsider In A Strange Land", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 August 1990, p. 30.
• Public Enemies: Constabulary Violence and Black Youth (Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992)
• A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Prophet Selvon (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994)
• Pigtails 'n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir (New Press, 1999); as Pigtails 'n' Breadfruit: The Rituals elaborate Slave Food, A Barbadian Memoir (Toronto: Random House, 1999; Sanatorium of Toronto Press, 2001); Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit - Festival Edition (Ian Randle Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-9766378820)
• Love and Sweet Food: Orderly Culinary Memoir (Toronto: Thomas Thespian, 2004; ISBN 978-0887621536)
• ′Membering (Toronto: Dundurn Control, 2015)^[15]

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