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Edition 19 (1983) Winner
sean o huigin
ショーン・オ・ヒギン
sean o huigin
Aliases:
John Higgins
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1942-06-27 （Brampton, Ontario）
- Nationality
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Ontario
Career
- Occupations
- poet, writer, children's poet
- Active Years
- 1960-1999
- Affiliations
- Black Moss Press
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature | The Ghost Horse of the Mounties | Children's literature | Canada Council | Winner |
Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
1983
Work:
The Ghost Horse of the Mounties
Category:
Children's literature
Organization:
Canada Council
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Ghost Horse of the Mounties
1983 Children's poetryA children's poetry book about the ghost horse of the Mounties.
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Scary Poems for Rotten Kids
1988 Children's poetryCollection of scary poems for rotten kids.
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Adaptations
- [Short film] Acid Rain (1986)
King of the Birds
1992 Children's literatureA pourquoi story about the king of the birds.
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A Dozen Million Spills and Other Disasters
1993 Children's poetryPoems about spills and disasters.
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Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- short lines of poetryscary subject matterssparing use of capital letters and punctuationtwo vertical columns of prose
- Recurring Motifs
- scary themeschildren's fearsdisasters
Legacy
Canadian children's poet who became the first to win the Governor General's Award with a poetry book.
Trivia
- Renamed himself from John Higgins to the Irish 'sean o huigin' in all lowercase letters.
- Began using sound poetry in the early 1960s.
- Wrote two books about a real-life stray dog named Pickles in Windsor, Ontario.