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Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, CM, O.Ont (born July 26, 1934) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St. James, Barbados, in 1955 Clarke moved to Canada, where he attended the University of Toronto.
He was a reporter in the Ontario communities of Timmins and Kirkland Lake, before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a freelance journalist.
[edit] Awards
In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He won the Giller Prize for The Polished Hoe in 2002, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
[edit] Short stories
- When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks (1971)
- When Women Rule (1985)
- Nine Men Who Laughed (1986)
- In This City (1992)
- There Are No Elders (1993)
- Choosing His Coffin (2003)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack (1980)
- Public Enemies: Police Violence and Black Youth (1992)
- A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon (1994)
- Pigtails 'n' Breadfruit (1999)
[edit] External links
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Scotiabank Giller Prize |
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M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) · Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) · Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) · Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) · Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) · Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999) · Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) · Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) · Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) · M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) · Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) · David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) · Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) · Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) · Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) · Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)
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