Douglas LePan
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Douglas Valentine LePan (25 May 1914 – 27 November 1998) was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, LePan joined the Canadian diplomatic service in 1946 and remained with the Department of External Affairs until 1959. He subsequently taught at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Toronto where he was University Professor and Senior Fellow at Massey College. His wartime experience with the Canadian Army in Italy inspired his poetry and one novel The Deserter (1964). LePan is one of only a few people ever to have won the Governor General's award for poetry and fiction (alongside Michael Ondaatje and George Bowering). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998. A much anthologized poem is "A Country Without a Mythology".
LePan was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1976.
[edit] Selected works
- The Wounded Prince (1948)
- The Net and the Sword (1953), winner of the 1953 Governor General's Awards
- The Deserter (1964), winner of the 1964 Governor General's Awards
- Bright Glass of Memory (1979)
- Something Still To Find (1982)
- Weathering It: Complete Poems 1948-1987 (1987)
- Far Voyages (1990)
- Macalister, or Dying in the Dark (1995)
