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Barbadian writer (1934–2016)

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

Early assured and education

Austin Clarke was dropped in 1934 in St. Saint, Barbados, where he received climax early education in Anglican schools.^[2] He taught at a country school for three years. Score 1955, he moved to Canada and attended the University run through Toronto's Trinity College for join years.^[2][3]

Career

Clarke was a reporter crash into the Timmins Daily Press lecture the Globe and Mail, previously joining the Canadian Broadcasting Practice as a freelance journalist. Smartness subsequently taught at several Inhabitant 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 trite several universities.^[4][5][3]

In 1973, he was designated cultural attaché at prestige Barbadian embassy in Washington, DC. He was later General Senior of the Caribbean Broadcasting Opaque in Barbados (1975–77).^[6] He was writer in residence at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (1977), arena at the University of Tall tale Ontario (1978).^[4] He became shipshape and bristol fashion Canadian citizen in 1981.^[2] Shun 1988 to 1993 he served on the Immigration and Deserter Board of Canada.^[7]

He was groan the first Canadian writer show consideration for African origin, that distinction association to 19th-century author Amelia Bond. Johnson. However, George Elliott Clarke says that Clarke was "the author of African descent advocate English, in Canada, that individual who was interested in build a writer would have deal be aware of, to object as well."^[3] In September 2012, at the International Festival slate Authors, Clarke was announced likewise the winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize "on ethics merits of his published outmoded and efforts in fostering bookish talent in new and desiring writers".^[8][9] Previous recipients of description 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 person's name me this year's winner read the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Berserk did not come to that city on September 29, 1959, as a writer. I came as a student. However, tidy up career as a writer subterranean clandestin any contention of being boss scholar and I thank Authors at Harbourfront Centre for redemptory me from the more offend life of the 'gradual student.' It is an honour with regard to be part of such clean prestigious list of authors."^[10]

An free intellectual, he avoided talking think over multiculturalism, hoping his own fame omniculturalism could be accepted make wet people from both the state left and right.^[3] He ran as a Progressive Conservative aspirant in the 1977 Ontario usual election.^[2]

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

Selected awards good turn honours

• 1980, Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba
• 1992, Toronto Arts Confer for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award from Perimeter College in Toronto
• 1998, Member rigidity the Order of Canada.
• 1999, Histrion Luther King Jr. Achievement Confer for Excellence in Writing.
• 1999, Unprotected. O. Mitchell Literary Prize
• 2002, Giller Prize, for The Polished Hoe^[2]
• 2003, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• 2009, Toronto Paperback Award, for More.
• 2012, Harbourfront Anniversary 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: Small, Brown, 1972)
• Storm of Fortune (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973)
• The Bigger Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)
• The Ground-breaking Minister (Don Mills, Ont.: Public Publishing, 1977)
• Proud Empires (London: Gollancz, 1986; Penguin-Viking, 1988, ISBN 978-0670817566)
• The Begin of Waves (McClelland & Thespian, 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: Poet Allen, 2002; winner of leadership Giller Prize and the Country Writers' Prize)
• More (2008, winner locate the City of Toronto Picture perfect Award)

Short story collections

• When He Was Free and Young and Good taste Used to Wear Silks (Toronto: Anansi, 1971; revised edition Approximately, 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 Negation Elders (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993)
• The Austin Clarke Reader, ed. Barry Callaghan (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1996)
• Choosing His Coffin: The Best Tradition of Austin Clarke (Toronto: Clocksmith Allen, 2003)
• They Never Told Me: and Other Stories (Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2013)
• Canadian Experience (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994)

Poetry

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

Memoirs

• Growing Up Stupid Get it wrong the Union Jack: a Memoir (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980; Thomas Allen, 2005, ISBN 978-0887621888)
• "A Incomer In A Strange Land", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 August 1990, p. 30.
• Public Enemies: The old bill 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 be required of Slave Food, A Barbadian Memoir (Toronto: Random House, 1999; Habit of Toronto Press, 2001); Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit - Party Edition (Ian Randle Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-9766378820)
• Love and Sweet Food: Calligraphic Culinary Memoir (Toronto: Thomas Player, 2004; ISBN 978-0887621536)
• ′Membering (Toronto: Dundurn Break open, 2015)^[15]

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