Jean Margaret Laurence CC (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures...
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Margaret Laurence is an Australian actress, best known for several soap opera roles. She is likely best known internationally for her role as Marilyn...
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financial support to Canadian writers. Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laurence, and David Young; the Writers' Trust celebrating...
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ophthalmologist Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), Canadian novelist and short story writer Oona Laurence (born 2002), American actress Richard Laurence (1760–1838)...
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Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965–1980 : the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press...
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same year, Hauser starred in The Stone Angel adapted from a novel by Margaret Laurence. The film played in various festival circles and had a limited release...
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Margaret Larkin (1899–1967), American writer Margaret Laurence (1926–1987), Canadian novelist Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), English actress Margaret...
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musician and actor Roger Fisher and Nancy Wilson, of rock band Heart Margaret Laurence, Canadian novelist and short story writer Kekuta Manneh, Gambian-born...
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were produced in Manitoba, such as The Stone Angel, based on the Margaret Laurence book of the same title, The Saddest Music in the World, Foodland,...
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used as a setting in novels and short stories by Margaret Laurence. The town was based on Laurence's real-life hometown of Neepawa, and should not be...
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The Diviners (category Novels by Margaret Laurence)
The Diviners is a novel by Margaret Laurence. Published by McClelland & Stewart in 1974, it was Laurence's final novel, and is considered one of the classics...
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residents. The Margaret Laurence Home is a designated Provincial Heritage Site and a Level 2 Museum. This is the house where Margaret Laurence grew up in...
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The Stone Angel (category Novels by Margaret Laurence)
the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. First published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels...
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Diviners (1993), based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan...
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Richler) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic. Other great 20th-century Canadian authors include Margaret Laurence, Mavis Gallant...
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prevails in more recent literature. The novel The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence has a protagonist named Hagar married to a man named Bram, whose life...
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A Jest of God (category Novels by Margaret Laurence)
A Jest of God is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Laurence. It was first published in 1966. It won the 1966 Governor General's Award for English-language...
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by the Canada Council for the Arts. Fiction: Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God Poetry or Drama: Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game Non-Fiction: George Woodcock...
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starred in The Stone Angel, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Margaret Laurence. Like its predecessor, the film also garnered negative reviews, with...
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among others, the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence. According to Canadian novelist and scholar Margaret Laurence, who originally coined the term "Nation...
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Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, and was the first Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University. In the past he facilitated the Fiction...
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The Stone Angel (film) (category Films based on works by Margaret Laurence)
Skogland. The screenplay is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Margaret Laurence. The film spans several decades in the unconventional life of feisty...
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Selected Poems of Irving Layton Source: Marshall McLuhan E. J. Pratt Margaret Laurence Frederick Philip Grove Leonard Cohen Mordecai Richler Stephen Leacock...
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2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize Five authors have won the award twice: Margaret Atwood Peter Carey J. M. Coetzee J. G. Farrell Hilary Mantel The following...
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Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears...
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Bailey in the television series Wind at My Back, Hagar Shipley in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, and even characters in popular science fiction series...
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Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence. Somalis have a story-telling tradition. According to Canadian novelist and scholar Margaret Laurence, who originally...
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Rachel, Rachel (category Films based on works by Margaret Laurence)
Stewart Stern based on the 1966 novel A Jest of God by Canadian author Margaret Laurence, concerns a schoolteacher in small-town Connecticut and her sexual...
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A Bird in the House (category Books by Margaret Laurence)
published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. Noted by Laurence to be "semi-autobiographical", the series chronicles the...
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education of issues around sexual identification. She delivered the 2021 Margaret Laurence Lecture on "A Writing Life". In 2020, she was named finalist for the...
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