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We are delighted to announce that Journey with No Maps, by Sandra Djwa, has been awarded the 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities.
CONGRATULATIONS to Sandra!
From the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences website:
Jury’s citation: Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa is an engaging portrait of an intriguing woman who was not only one of Canada’s most beloved poets and painters but one who was living and creating at an important moment in Canada’s cultural history. Incorporating Page’s poetry seamlessly into her life story, it manages to illuminate both the life and the art. Djwa, an eminent Canadianist herself, has had a front row seat to the creation of the entity we know as CanLit. Journey with No Maps is the outcome of that involvement, both an intimate biography and a wide-ranging literary history.
Sandra Djwa is renowned for her writing on iconic Canadian authors, such as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Al Purdy and E.J. Pratt. In 2013 she was awarded a Governor General’s Literary Award for Journey with No Maps, which was also shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction. Her biography of poet F. R. Scott was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans B.C. Non-fiction prize (1987), and the French version of the book, translated by Florence Bernard, was a GG finalist in translation in 2002. She was awarded the Royal Society Lorne Pierce medal for Professing English (2002), her biography of poet and scholar Roy Daniells. Sandra Djwa worked with the English department at Simon Fraser University from 1968–2005. Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, she currently lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia.
The 2014 Canada Prizes will be presented at the awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at York University’s Glendon College in Toronto. The awards ceremony will feature keynote remarks by Michael Adams, President of Environics and a member of the jury.
Click here for photos of P.K Page
Read an interview and excerpt of Journey with No Maps
Watch this video of Sandra Djwa
McGill-Queen’s would also like to congratulate the other finalists of the 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities, including Kirsty Johnston, author of Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre. Read more about her book on the development and innovations of disability theatre in Canada here.
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