Joan Clark
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Joan Clark BA, D.Litt (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957.[1] She has worked as a teacher
Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton's University of Alberta. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.
Clark served on the jury at the 2001 Giller Prize.
Clark lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
[edit] Awards and recognition
- 1988: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards
- 1988: finalist, Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Victory of Geraldine Gull
- 1991: Marian Engel Award
- 1995: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Dream Carvers
- 1998: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
- 1999: Vicky Metcalf Award
- 2003: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Word for Home
- 2006: longlisted for the IMPAC Award, An Audience of Chairs
[edit] Books
- 1968: Girl of the Rockies
- 1971: Thomasina and the Trout Tree (Tundra) ISBN 0-912766-02-6
- 1977: The Hand of Robin Squires (Clarke, Irwin) ISBN 0-7720-1091-9 (La main de Robin Squires: le mystere de l'ile aux Chenes, translated by Claude Aubry (P. Tisseyre, 1984) ISBN 2-89051-158-8)
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- Penguin Canada paperback editions: ISBN 0-14-031905-0, ISBN 0-14-301512-5
- other paperback editions: ISBN 0-7720-1311-X, ISBN 0-7736-7426-8
- 1982: From a High Thin Wire (NeWest) ISBN 0-920316-51-4
- 1985: Wild Man of the Woods (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-80015-5
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- Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-031788-0
- 1987: The Moons of Madeleine (Viking Kestrel) ISBN 0-670-81284-6
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- Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-032182-9
- 1988: The Victory of Geraldine Gull (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9281-7
- 1990: Swimming Toward the Light (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9975-7
- 1993: Eiriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9009-1
- 1995: The Dream Carvers (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-85858-7 (Les sculpteurs de rêves, translated by Catherine Germain (P. Tisseyre, 2004) ISBN 2-89051-773-X)
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- Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-038629-7
- 2000: Latitudes of Melt (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97288-8
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- Vintage Canada paperback , ISBN 0-676-97291-8
- 2002: The Word for Home (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-91121-6
- 2005: An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97655-7
