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Brian Fawcett
Born (1944-05-13) May 13, 1944 (age 80)
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materSimon Fraser University
Occupation(s)writer,cultural analyst

Brian Fawcett (born May 13, 1944)[1] is a Canadian writer[2][3] and cultural analyst who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George,[4] in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.[5] Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as an urban planner. In 2001, he co-founded (with Stan Persky) the website www.dooneyscafe.com[2] (named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West), which is described as "a news service" and to which he is a regular contributor. He has also taught cultural literacy in maximum security prisons.[6] In 2003 Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize[5] (in 2011 Hilary Weston began sponsoring the Writers' Trust Prize).[7]

Bibliography

Fiction

  • The Opening: Prince George, Finally (1974)
  • My Career with the Leafs and Other Stories (1982)
  • Capital Tales (1984)
  • The Secret Journal of Alexandre Mackenzie (1985)
  • Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television too Slow (1986)[8]
  • 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)[9]
  • A Blue Spruce Christmas (2010)

Poetry

  • Five Books of a Northmanual (1971)
  • Friends (1971)
  • Five Books of A Norhmanual (1972)
  • The Opening (1974)
  • Permanent Relationships (1975)
  • The Second Life (1976)
  • Creatures of State (1977)
  • Tristram's Book (1981)
  • Aggressive Transport (1982)[10]

Non-fiction

  • 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)[9][11][12]
  • Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Café and other Non-Globalized Places, People, and Ideas (2003)[13][14]
  • Human Happiness (2011)[15][16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Fawcett, Brian 1944-". OCLC WorldCat Identities. Dublin, USA: WorldCat Org. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "About". dooneyscafe.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  3. ^ "About the Author - Brian Fawcett". 49th Shelf. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Contributors - Brian Fawcett". DUNDURN Publishers of fine books. DUNDURN. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "#108 Brian Fawcett". BC Booklook. BC Booklook. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  6. ^ "Authors - Brian Fawcett". New Star Books. New Star Books. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  7. ^ "2003 Winner Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown". WT Writers' Trust of Canada. Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  8. ^ "Books by Brian Fawcett and Complete Book Reviews". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  9. ^ a b Hinzmann, Chritine. "Award winning writer returns to Prince George". Prince George Citizen. Glacier Community Media. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  10. ^ Leonard, Sister Anne (November 1983). "AGGRESSIVE TRANSPORT: TWO NARRATIVE REVISIONS 1975-1982 by Brian Fawcett". CM Archive - A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People. 11 (6). The Manitoba Library Association. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  11. ^ Kett, Andrew. "Virtual Clearcut or the Way Things Are in My Hometown by Brian Fawcett". Quill & Quire. St. Joseph Media. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  12. ^ Cole, Susan (December 25, 2003). "Top 10 Books of 2003". Now Toronto. Toronto, Canada: NOW Communications Inc. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  13. ^ Lynch, Brian (January 22, 2004). "Local Matters, by Brian Fawcett". Vancouver, Canada: The Georgia Straight. Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  14. ^ Babstock, Ken. "A contrarian's contrarian". The Globe and Mail. GLOBEARTS. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  15. ^ Marchand, Philip (October 7, 2011). "Open Book: Human Happiness, by Brian Fawcett". National Post. Post Media. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  16. ^ Ruebsaat, Norbert. "In Search of the Good Life". Literary Review of Canada Magazine. Toronto, Canada: LRC Magazine. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  17. ^ Medley, Mark (November 2, 2011). "BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction releases longlist". National Post. Toronto, Canada. POSTMEDIA. Retrieved March 23, 2019.

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