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Alistair MacLeod is a professor of English at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He lives in Windsor & in Cape Breton, where he was raised. (Publisher Provided) Alistair MacLeod teaches at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and spends his summers on Cape Breton Island. (Publisher Provided) Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada on July 20, 1936. After receiving a Teacher's Certificate from the Nova Scotia Teacher's College, he obtained a B.A. and B.Ed. from St. Francis Xavier University, a M.A. from the University of New Brunswick, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He taught creative writing at Indiana University for three years and then moved to the University of Windsor, where he taught English and creative writing until his retirement in 2000. His wrote his first short story, The Boat, in 1968. He is best known for his short story collections including The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, and Island. His only novel No Great Mischief received numerous awards including the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction, the Trillium Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Award, the Dartmouth Book and Writing Award for Fiction, the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Choice Award, and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2008, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada. He died after suffering a stroke on April 20, 2014 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from No Great Mischief… (mere)
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(eng)Not to be confused with Scottish author "Alistair MacLean", the author of several works that have crept in here: Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Force 10 from Navarone, and Circus.
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Not to be confused with Scottish author "Alistair MacLean", the author of several works that have crept in here: Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Force 10 from Navarone, and Circus.
Alistair MacLeod er for indeværende opfattet som navnet på "én bestemt forfatter".Hvis et eller flere værker er af en anden forfatter, så fortsæt og opsplit forfatteren.
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