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George
Elliott Clarke is the 2001 recipient of the Governor
General's Award for Execution Poems (Gaspereau Press).
A seventh-generation African Canadian, he has published
five books of poetry. His dramatic works include
two verse dramas, Whylah Falls and Beatrice Chancy;
an opera libretto called Beatrice Chancy, and an
award-winning feature-film screenplay, One Heart
Broken into Song (CBC Television, 1999). In 2003
his jazz opera Quebecité premiered in Guelph,
Ontario, and was produced also in Vancouver.
Clarke has edited anthologies of African-Canadian
writing, and in 2002 the University of Toronto Press
released his critical study, Odysseys Home: Mapping
African-Canadian Literature. In 2005 HarperCollins
Canada and Secker and Warburg in the UK released
his first novel, George and Rue, which carries endorsements
from Howard Norman, Alistair Macleod, and Austin
Clarke.
Honored as a poet and as an activist scholar, Clarke
has received several awards, including the Archibald
Lampman Award for Poetry, the Portia White Prize,
and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency.
He is currently E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian
Literature at the University of Toronto.
Program: The Great Non-American Novel
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