Barbara Klar

Barbara Klar
Born 1966
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Occupation poet
Nationality Canadian
Period 1990s-present
Notable works The Night You Called Me a Shadow

Barbara Klar (born 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for her poetry collection The Night You Called Me a Shadow.[1]

After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan.[1] She published poetry in literary magazines such as Grain, Border Crossings and Prairie Fire before The Night You Called Me a Shadow was published in 1993.[1] The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award.[2]

She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, The Blue Field (1999),[1] Tower Road (2004)[3] and Cypress (2008).[4] Both The Blue Field and Cypress were shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award.[2] She won a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council in 2004.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Heather Hodgson, Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. ISBN 0-88977-163-4. p. 127.
  2. 1 2 David Carpenter, The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 ~ Progressions. Coteau Books, 2014. ISBN 9781550505689. pp. 204-209.
  3. ↑ "Each book unique piece of art". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, December 4, 2004.
  4. ↑ Cynthia Sugars, The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780199941872. p. 741.


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