Elisabeth Harvor - biography, career, poetry
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Elisabeth Harvor’s fiction and poetry have appeared in many magazines and periodicals, among them The New Yorker, The Malahat Review, Arc, The Hudson Review, The American Voice, and Our Generation Against Nuclear War.
Her story collections are Our Lady of All the Distances, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever, and Let Me Be the One, chosen one of the ten best books of the year by The Toronto Star and The Saint John Telegraph Journal and, after its distribution in the US, one of the best books of 1997 for the Librarians’ Choice Awards in Cleveland, Ohio. Let Me Be the One was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.
She has also won many awards for her fiction and poetry. Fortress of Chairs, her first book of poems, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry written by a Canadian writer in 1992. Her second poetry book, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring, was a finalist for the Lowther Award in 1997, and her first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, was chosen one of the ten best books of the year by The Toronto Star in 2000. Her most recent novel, All Times Have Been Modern, was a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award.
Harvor has also edited an anthology of new writing titled A Room at the Heart of Things. It mainly features the work of students and beginning writers whose stories and poems she collected while teaching in writing programs at York University, Concordia University, and the Humber School for Writers, or while being writer-in-residence at libraries and universities across Canada.
In 2000 Elisabeth Harvor won the Alden Nowlan Award, in 2003 the Marian Engel Award, and in 2004 the Malahat Novella Prize for "Across Some Dark Avenue of Plot He Carried Her Body."
BOOKS
Elisabeth Harvor’s fiction and poetry have appeared in The Malahat Review, The New Yorker, PRISM International, The Hudson Review, Best Canadian Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She has been writer-in-residence at universities and libraries across Canada and has taught at Concordia University, York University, and the Humber School for Writers. She has also written essays on the work of Sylvia Plath, Doris Lessing, and many other writers for Our Generation Against Nuclear War, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Gazette, Matrix, and a number of other periodicals. She has two sons and is currently living in Ottawa.
Selected Publications:
All Times Have Been Modern, a novel, Viking Canada, Toronto, 2004.
If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever, stories, re-issue, Penguin, Toronto, 2004.
Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, a novel, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2000.
Let Me Be the One, stories, HarperCollins, Toronto, 1996.
Fortress of Chairs, poetry, Signal Editions, Montreal, 1992.
Our Lady of All the Distances, re-issue, stories, HarperCollins, 1991.
Awards:
The Malahat Novella Prize, 2004.
The Marian Engel Award, 2003.
The Alden Nowlan Award, 2000.
Fortress of Chairs, The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 1993.
Confederation Poets Prize, 1992, 1993.
First Prize in the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition, 1991.
About the author:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca
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