Patrick Lane (1939–2019)
Forfatter af What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
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Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada on March 26, 1939. He wrote more than 20 collections of poetry as well as novels and nonfiction books. His first collection of poetry, Letters from a Savage Mind, was published in 1966. His other poetry collections included Separations, vis mere Beware the Months of Fire, Winter and Mortal Remains, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane, and No Longer Two People written with his wife Lorna Crozier. Poems, New and Selected received the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 1978 and Too Spare, Too Fierce received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1995. His novels included Red Dog, Red Dog and Deep River Night. His memoir There Is a Season received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and B.C. Award for Canadian Nonfiction. He was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2014 for his vast and accomplished body of work. He died of a heart attack on March 7, 2019 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Kanonisk navn
- Lane, Patrick
- Fødselsdato
- 1939-03-26
- Dødsdag
- 2019-03-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Fødested
- Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
- Bopæl
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada - Erhverv
- writer-in-residence
academic
sawmill worker
choker
truck driver - Relationer
- Crozier, Lorna (wife)
Lane, Red (brother) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence (2007)
- Kort biografi
- Patrick has lived and traveled extensively around the world, and has been published in many countries. He has been Writer-in-Residence and teacher at a number of educational institutions, including Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Victoria and Toronto. Lane lives on Vancouver Island with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. In 2000, he confronted a choice: he could continue drinking and expect to die, or he could quit and live. He went into rehab and for a year, he stayed close to home, gardening and slowly rediscovering himself by searching among his memories for the root of his addiction. "There is a Season" is his memoir of this journey back.
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I also felt betrayed by the idea that this is a memoir. It is more a confession and a diary. He does reminisce about his life, but it is done in such way that at times I felt I was eavesdropping in a soliloquy that was never meant to be heard by anyone.
Yet, yet..., there are some jewels in here. The few pages where he talks of his love of words are the best I remember reading from any writer explaining the same love. And the sincere sympathy he portraits for his father’s murderer does reveal something bigger about the man that Patrick Lane must be.
3 stars are maybe unfair. They only mean: “I like it” no more, no less.
… (mere)