Joan Clark BA, D.Litt (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957.[1] She has worked as a teacher

Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton's University of Alberta. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.

Clark served on the jury at the 2001 Giller Prize.

Clark lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

[edit] Awards and recognition

• 1988: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards
• 1988: finalist, Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Victory of Geraldine Gull
• 1991: Marian Engel Award
• 1995: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Dream Carvers
• 1998: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
• 1999: Vicky Metcalf Award
• 2003: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Word for Home
• 2006: longlisted for the IMPAC Award, An Audience of Chairs

[edit] Books

• 1968: Girl of the Rockies
• 1971: Thomasina and the Trout Tree (Tundra) ISBN 0-912766-02-6
• 1977: The Hand of Robin Squires (Clarke, Irwin) ISBN 0-7720-1091-9 (La main de Robin Squires: le mystere de l'ile aux Chenes, translated by Claude Aubry (P. Tisseyre, 1984) ISBN 2-89051-158-8)

Penguin Canada paperback editions: ISBN 0-14-031905-0, ISBN 0-14-301512-5

other paperback editions: ISBN 0-7720-1311-X, ISBN 0-7736-7426-8

• 1982: From a High Thin Wire (NeWest) ISBN 0-920316-51-4
• 1985: Wild Man of the Woods (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-80015-5

Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-031788-0

• 1987: The Moons of Madeleine (Viking Kestrel) ISBN 0-670-81284-6

Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-032182-9

• 1988: The Victory of Geraldine Gull (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9281-7
• 1990: Swimming Toward the Light (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9975-7
• 1993: Eiriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck (Macmillan of Canada) ISBN 0-7715-9009-1
• 1995: The Dream Carvers (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-85858-7 (Les sculpteurs de rêves, translated by Catherine Germain (P. Tisseyre, 2004) ISBN 2-89051-773-X)

Penguin Canada paperback ISBN 0-14-038629-7

• 2000: Latitudes of Melt (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97288-8

Vintage Canada paperback , ISBN 0-676-97291-8

• 2002: The Word for Home (Viking Canada) ISBN 0-670-91121-6
• 2005: An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada) ISBN 0-676-97655-7

[edit] External links

• Joan Clark's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Writers Union of Canada: Joan Clark
• Famous Canadians: Joan Clark
• Memorial University: Address to convocation (4 June 1998)

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