Gwendolyn MacEwen

Gwendolyn MacEwen (September 1, 1941-November 29, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and poet. During her lifetime. she wrote 26 books.

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September 1 - 1941 - November 29 - 1987 - Canadian - Novelist - Poet - Book

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MacEwen was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her first poem was published in The Canadian Forum when she was only 17, and she left school at 18 to pursue a writing career. She married poet Milton Acorn in 1962, although they divorced two years later.

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Toronto, Ontario - The Canadian Forum - Milton Acorn - 1962

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MacEwen won the Governor General's Award in 1969 for her poetry collection The Shadow Maker. She won her second Governor General's Award in 1987 for Afterworlds.

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Governor General's Award - 1969 - 1987

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MacEwen was regarded as one of Canada's greatest poets, whose work was visionary, witty and drew readily on themes and images of magic and mythology.

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Magic - Mythology

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She served as Writer in Residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1985, and the University of Toronto in 1986 and 1987.

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University of Western Ontario - 1985 - University of Toronto - 1986 - 1987

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MacEwen died in 1987, at the age of 46, of health problems related to alcoholism. Rosemary Sullivan published a biography of MacEwen, Shadow Maker, in 1998. As well, a park in Toronto has been named in her honour.

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Alcoholism - Rosemary Sullivan - Shadow Maker - 1998

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