Adele Wiseman

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Adele Wiseman
Born(1928-05-21)May 21, 1928
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
DiedJune 1, 1992(1992-06-01) (aged 64)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EducationUniversity of Manitoba (BA, 1949)
Notable awardsGovernor General's Award for English-language fiction (1956)

Adele Wiseman (May 21, 1928 – June 1, 1992)[1][2] was a Canadian author.

Born in

pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War.[3]

In 1956, Wiseman published her first novel, The Sacrifice, which won the

the Depression and World War II
, and the challenges the next generation faced in acculturating to Canadian society.

Wiseman also published plays, children's stories, essays, and other non-fiction. Her book, Old Woman at Play, examines and meditates on the creative process while paying tribute to Wiseman's mother and the dolls she made.[5]

Wiseman was lifelong friends with Margaret Laurence who was another Canadian author from Manitoba.[2] She was an active and accessible Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor in her final years. At a campus rally against the First Gulf War, she read passionately a new poem denouncing war.

Awards

  • Governor General's Award for English-language fiction for The Sacrifice (1956)[2][6]
  • Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Award (1957)[2]
  • Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1957)[2]
  • Canadian Foundation fellowship (1957)[2]
  • Guggenheim fellowship (1958) [2]
  • Canada Council Arts Scholarship (1959)[2]
  • Leipzig Book Fair Bronze Medal (1964)[2]
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Book Award (1974)[2]
  • J. I. Segal Foundation Award (1974 and 1988)[2]
  • Three Guineas Charitable Foundation Agency Award (1984–1985)[2]

Selected works

  • The Sacrifice (1956)
  • Old Markets, New World (1964)
  • Crackpot (1974)
  • Old Woman at Play (1978)
  • Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays (1987)
  • Kenji and the Cricket (1988)
  • Puccini and the Prowlers (1992)

Further reading

  • Ruth Panofsky (2006). The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman. University of Manitoba Press.
    ISBN 0-88755-689-2
    .
  • Valerie-Kristin Piehslinger. Portrayals of Urban Jewish Communities in U.S. American and Canadian Immigrant Fiction in Selected Texts by
    urn:nbn:de:101:1-201304031931
  • Adam Sol, David S. Koffman, Gary Barwin, Michael Greenstein, Ruth Panofsky, Lisa Richter, Emily Robins Sharpe, and Rhea Tregebov. “Canadian Jewish Poetry: A Roundtable”, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes vol. 34, 2022.

References

  1. ^ Boyd, Colin (2014-04-06). "Adele Wiseman". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2023-04-16. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Brown, Michael; Panofsky, Ruth (2021-06-23). "Adele Wiseman". Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  3. ^ Boyd, Colin. "Adele Wiseman". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  4. ^ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  5. OCLC 243614302
    .
  6. ^ "Governor-General Literature Awards Are Announced". Red Deer Advocate, May 8, 1957.

External links

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