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第7回（2003年） Winner
Brian Fawcett
ブライアン・フォーセット
Brian Fawcett
ペンネーム:
Gordon Lockhead（Used as editor for the magazine NMFG）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1944-05-13 （Prince George, British Columbia）
- 死没
- 2022-02-27 （Toronto, Ontario） 77歳
- 国籍
- Canada
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Prince George, British Columbia → Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto, Ontario
経歴
- 職業
- writer, cultural analyst, urban planner, community organizer
- 活動期間
- 1971年〜2022年
- 影響を受けた人物
- R. Murray Schafer, Robin Blaser
- ノミネート
- Nominated for Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence (2012, Human Happiness)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Fraser University | — | English | Bachelor of Arts | 1966-1969 | Canada |
Simon Fraser University
English
学位:
Bachelor of Arts
期間:
1966-1969
卒業年:
1969
国:
Canada
Taught by R. Murray Schafer and Robin Blaser. Woodrow Wilson Fellow for 1969–1970.
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize | Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown | — | Writers' Trust of Canada | Winner |
Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
2003
対象作品:
Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown
主催:
Writers' Trust of Canada
結果:
Winner
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
1986年 FictionAccount of the Khmer Rouge and Cambodian genocide.
Cambodian genocidepolitics
Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown
2003年 Non-fictionDepiction of the state of affairs in his hometown Prince George.
hometowncultural criticism
The Last of the Lumbermen
2013年 FictionStory of a celebrated hockey team in Prince George during the 1950s and 1960s.
hockeyhometown history
Human Happiness
2011年 Non-fictionExploration of human happiness.
happinessculture
全著作
- The Opening: Prince George, Finally (1974)
- My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories (1982)
- Capital Tales (1984)
- The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie (1985)
- Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986)
- Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World (1990)
- Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversation About Sex and Gender (1994)
- The Last of the Lumbermen (2013)
- A Blue Spruce Christmas (2010)
- Five Books of a Northmanual (1971)
- Friends (1971)
- Permanent Relationships (1975)
- The Second Life (1976)
- Creatures of State (1977)
- Tristram's Book (1981)
- Aggressive Transport (1982)
- Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times and Other Impolite Interventions (1991)
- The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space (1992)
- The Disbeliever's Dictionary: A Completely Disrespectful Lexicon of Canada Today (1997)
- Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown (2003)
- Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas (2003)
- Human Happiness (2011)
作風・主題
- 文体
- Diverse storytelling techniquesCultural commentary
- 頻出モチーフ
- Hometown Prince GeorgeViolenceImpact of globalization
健康
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis2018-2022Suffered for four years, cause of death.
評価・遺産
Canadian writer who published over 20 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Known for works about his hometown Prince George and cultural analysis.
資料所蔵先
- Northern BC Archives (Brian Fawcett fonds)
豆知識
- Had three children.
- First wife was poet Sharon Thesen.
- Co-founder of dooneyscafe.com.