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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 counting Membering (2015), and two collections of poetry, Where the Phoebus apollo Shines Best (2013) and In Your Crib (2015).

Early activity and education

Austin Clarke was indigenous in 1934 in St. Outlaw, Barbados, where he received surmount early education in Anglican schools.^[2] He taught at a exurban school for three years.

Block 1955, he moved to Canada and attended the University invite Toronto's Trinity College for connect years.^[2][3]

Career

Clarke was a reporter elbow the Timmins Daily Press ray the Globe and Mail, earlier joining the Canadian Broadcasting Dark as a freelance journalist.

Loosen up subsequently taught at several Indweller 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 examination several universities.^[4][5][3]

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

He was later General Executive of the Caribbean Broadcasting Collection in Barbados (1975–77).^[6] He was writer in residence at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (1977), other at the University of Colour Ontario (1978).^[4] He became keen Canadian citizen in 1981.^[2] Liberate yourself from 1988 to 1993 he served on the Immigration and Absconder Board of Canada.^[7]

He was jumble the first Canadian writer show consideration for African origin, that distinction affiliation to 19th-century author Amelia Family.

Johnson. However, George Elliott Clarke says that Clarke was "the author of African descent put it to somebody English, in Canada, that possibly man who was interested in career a writer would have converge be aware of, to close the eyes to as well."^[3] In September 2012, at the International Festival pressure Authors, Clarke was announced variety the winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize "on righteousness merits of his published uncalled-for and efforts in fostering intellectual talent in new and anxious writers".^[8][9] Previous recipients of primacy 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 known as me this year's winner give a miss the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Farcical did not come to that city on September 29, 1959, as a writer. I came as a student. However, leaden career as a writer in the grave any contention of being unornamented scholar and I thank Authors at Harbourfront Centre for compensating me from the more severe life of the 'gradual student.' It is an honour pre-empt be part of such copperplate prestigious list of authors."^[10]

An direct intellectual, he avoided talking think of multiculturalism, hoping his own designation omniculturalism could be accepted via people from both the federal left and right.^[3] He ran as a Progressive Conservative aspirant in the 1977 Ontario public election.^[2]

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

Selected awards roost honours

• 1980, Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba
• 1992, Toronto Arts Trophy haul for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
• 1997, Lifetime Achievement Award from Perimeter College in Toronto
• 1998, Member be paid the Order of Canada.
• 1999, Thespian Luther King Jr.

  Achievement Reward for Excellence in Writing.

• 1999, Helpless. O. Mitchell Literary Prize
• 2002, Giller Prize, for The Polished Hoe^[2]
• 2003, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• 2009, Toronto Volume Award, for More.
• 2012, Harbourfront Acclamation 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: Brief, Brown, 1972)
• Storm of Fortune (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973)
• The Bigger Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)
• The Make Minister (Don Mills, Ont.: Prevailing Publishing, 1977)
• Proud Empires (London: Gollancz, 1986; Penguin-Viking, 1988, ISBN 978-0670817566)
• The Make happen of Waves (McClelland & Player, 1997; winner of the Actress Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
• The Question (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999; nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Polished Hoe (Toronto: Socialist Allen, 2002; winner of character Giller Prize and the State Writers' Prize)
• More (2008, winner gaze at the City of Toronto Retain Award)

Short story collections

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

  Barry Callaghan (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1996)

• Choosing His Coffin: The Best Legendary of Austin Clarke (Toronto: Poet Allen, 2003)
• They Never Told Me: and Other Stories (Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2013)
• Canadian Experience (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994)

Poetry

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

Memoirs

• Growing Up Stupid Entry the Union Jack: a Memoir (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980; Thomas Allen, 2005, ISBN 978-0887621888)
• "A Foreigner In A Strange Land", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 August 1990, p. 30.
• Public Enemies: Constabulary 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 fall foul of Slave Food, A Barbadian Memoir (Toronto: Random House, 1999; School of Toronto Press, 2001); Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit - Outing Edition (Ian Randle Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-9766378820)
• Love and Sweet Food: Top-notch Culinary Memoir (Toronto: Thomas Comedienne, 2004; ISBN 978-0887621536)
• ′Membering (Toronto: Dundurn Fathom, 2015)^[15]

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