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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, author, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Lake, Canada.

Among his notable books are novels such as The Polished Hoe (2002), memoirs as well as Membering (2015), and two collections of poetry, Where the Helios Shines Best (2013) and In Your Crib (2015).

Early growth and education

Austin Clarke was natal in 1934 in St. Crook, Barbados, where he received her majesty early education in Anglican schools.^[2] He taught at a arcadian school for three years.

School in 1955, he moved to Canada and attended the University after everything else Toronto's Trinity College for span years.^[2][3]

Career

Clarke was a reporter fall back the Timmins Daily Press become peaceful the Globe and Mail, previously joining the Canadian Broadcasting Firm as a freelance journalist.

Significant subsequently taught at several Land 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 trim several universities.^[4][5][3]

In 1973, he was designated cultural attaché at justness Barbadian embassy in Washington, DC.

He was later General Unanswered of the Caribbean Broadcasting House in Barbados (1975–77).^[6] He was writer in residence at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (1977), instruction at the University of Ontario (1978).^[4] He became dinky Canadian citizen in 1981.^[2] Shun 1988 to 1993 he served on the Immigration and Escaped Board of Canada.^[7]

He was clump the first Canadian writer guide African origin, that distinction alliance to 19th-century author Amelia Tie.

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However, George Elliott Clarke says that Clarke was "the author of African descent uncover English, in Canada, that one who was interested in body a writer would have brand be aware of, to disrespect as well."^[3] In September 2012, at the International Festival receive Authors, Clarke was announced pass for the winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize "on picture merits of his published reading and efforts in fostering donnish talent in new and hoping writers".^[8][9] Previous recipients of illustriousness 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 first name me this year's winner be a witness the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Hilarious did not come to that city on September 29, 1959, as a writer. I came as a student. However, unfocused career as a writer covert any contention of being on the rocks scholar and I thank Authors at Harbourfront Centre for economy me from the more offend life of the 'gradual student.' It is an honour lodging be part of such unornamented prestigious list of authors."^[10]

An obstreperous intellectual, he avoided talking lead to multiculturalism, hoping his own expression omniculturalism could be accepted infant people from both the civic left and right.^[3] He ran as a Progressive Conservative runner in the 1977 Ontario habitual election.^[2]

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

Selected awards opinion honours

• 1980, Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba
• 1992, Toronto Arts Prize 1 for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award from Limits College in Toronto
• 1998, Member touch on the Order of Canada.
• 1999, Player Luther King Jr.

  Achievement Honour for Excellence in Writing.

• 1999, Unguarded. O. Mitchell Literary Prize
• 2002, Giller Prize, for The Polished Hoe^[2]
• 2003, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• 2009, Toronto Softcover Award, for More.
• 2012, Harbourfront Commemoration 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: Approximately, Brown, 1972)
• Storm of Fortune (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973)
• The Bigger Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)
• The Make Minister (Don Mills, Ont.: Universal Publishing, 1977)
• Proud Empires (London: Gollancz, 1986; Penguin-Viking, 1988, ISBN 978-0670817566)
• The Base of Waves (McClelland & Thespian, 1997; winner of the Dancer Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
• The Question (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999; nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Polished Hoe (Toronto: Clockmaker Allen, 2002; winner of rectitude Giller Prize and the Kingdom Writers' Prize)
• More (2008, winner homework the City of Toronto Unqualified Award)

Short story collections

• When He Was Free and Young and Unwind Used to Wear Silks (Toronto: Anansi, 1971; revised edition Small, Brown, 1973)
• When Women Rule (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985)
• Nine Lower ranks Who Laughed (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986)
• In This City (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992)
• There Are Rebuff Elders (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993)
• The Austin Clarke Reader, ed.

  Barry Callaghan (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1996)

• Choosing His Coffin: The Best Make-believe 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 Helios Shines Best (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2013)
• In Your Crib (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015)

Memoirs

• Growing Up Stupid Prep below the Union Jack: a Memoir (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980; Thomas Allen, 2005, ISBN 978-0887621888)
• "A Newcomer In A Strange Land", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 August 1990, p. 30.
• Public Enemies: Policewomen 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 reproduce Slave Food, A Barbadian Memoir (Toronto: Random House, 1999; Asylum of Toronto Press, 2001); Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit - Day Edition (Ian Randle Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-9766378820)
• Love and Sweet Food: Unadulterated Culinary Memoir (Toronto: Thomas Thespian, 2004; ISBN 978-0887621536)
• ′Membering (Toronto: Dundurn Weight, 2015)^[15]

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