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Carol Shields

キャロール・シールズ

Kyaroru Shīruzu

Aliases: Carol Ann Shields / Carol Ann Warner

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1935-06-02 （Oak Park, Illinois, US）
Died
2003-07-16 （Victoria, British Columbia, Canada） age 68
Nationality
Canadian, American
Languages
English
Residence History
Oak Park, Illinois → Ottawa → Vancouver → Winnipeg, Manitoba → Victoria, British Columbia

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, professor
Active Years
1972-2002
Affiliations
University of Manitoba, University of British Columbia, University of Ottawa
Memberships
Order of Canada (OC 1998, CC 2002), Order of Manitoba, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Influenced By
Jane Austen
Influenced
Anne Giardini, Sara Cassidy
Nominations
Booker Prize shortlist (The Stone Diaries), Booker Prize shortlist (Unless), Giller Prize nominations (Larry's Party, Unless)

Education

Hanover College
Department of English
Degree: BA
Period: 1954-1957
Year of Graduation: 1957
Country: United States
Bachelor of Arts in English
University of Exeter
Period: 1955-1956
Country: United Kingdom
Junior year abroad
University of Ottawa
Department of English
Degree: MA
Year of Graduation: 1975
Country: Canada
Master of Arts

Awards

Governor General's Award
1993
Work: The Stone Diaries
Category: Fiction
Organization: Governor General of Canada
Result: Winner
Pulitzer Prize
1995
Work: The Stone Diaries
Category: Fiction
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner
Orange Prize for Fiction
1998
Work: Larry's Party
Category: Fiction
Organization: Orange Prize Foundation
Result: Winner
Charles Taylor Prize
2002
Work: Jane Austen
Category: Literary Non-Fiction
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Stone Diaries

1993 Novel

A novel tracing the life of Daisy Goodwill, a Canadian immigrant woman.

everyday lifewomen's experiencesfamily

Larry's Party

1997 Novel

Follows the life of Larry Weller through various parties.

loveidentityrelationships

Small Ceremonies

1976 Novel

Satirical novel about a biographer's life.

writingfamily

Swann: A Mystery

1987 Mystery Novel

Mystery surrounding a lost poet.

literatureloss
Adaptations
  • [Film] Swann / Anna Stratton (1996)

Unless

2002 Novel

A mother's story of her daughter's disappearance.

familylosswomen writers
Adaptations
  • [Play] Unless / Alan Gilsenan (2016)

Bibliography

  • Small Ceremonies
  • The Box Garden
  • Happenstance
  • Swann: A Mystery
  • The Republic of Love
  • The Stone Diaries
  • Larry's Party
  • Unless

Adaptations

  • Swann (film, 1996)
  • The Republic of Love (film, 2003)
  • The Shields Stories (TV series)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
precise depiction of everyday detailshumor and satirefemale perspective
Recurring Motifs
love and relationshipsfamily and domesticityloss and renewal

Health

  • breast cancer
    2000年代初頭
    Died in 2003

Legacy

Pulitzer Prize winner, major figure in Canadian and American literature. Daughters are writers. Carol Shields Prize for Fiction established in her honor.

Archives

  • Library and Archives Canada

In Popular Culture

  • Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (established 2020)

Trivia

  • Mother of five children (one son, four daughters).
  • Wrote a biography of Jane Austen.
  • Served as Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.