Ray Guy (humorist)
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| Born | 22 April 1939 Canadian National Magazine Awards |
Ray Guy (22 April 1939 – 14 May 2013) was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.[1]
He was born in
Come By Chance, Newfoundland, to George Hynes Guy and Alice Louisa Adams, but was raised and schooled in Arnold's Cove,[2]
the community that was to provide fodder for many of his columns.
Guy studied journalism at
Stephen Leacock Award
for his collection That Far Greater Bay (1976).
In 1979,
CBC St. John's television series that starred Mary Walsh as the owner of a boarding house and Ray Guy as the principal boarder. In 1985, Walsh appeared in and directed a stage play written by Guy, Young Triffie's Been Made Away With, which Walsh directed as a film in 2006, promoted in some markets under the shorter title Young Triffie
.
Guy also appeared as a commentator on the CBC St. John's news program Here & Now. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2001.
Ray Guy died of cancer on 14 May 2013. He was 74 years old.[1]
Select bibliography
- You May Know Them As Sea Urchins, Ma'am (1975)
- That Far Greater Bay (1976)
- Outhouses of the East (photography by Sherman Hines) (1978)
- Beneficial Vapors [sic?] (1981)
- A Heroine for Our Time (1983)
- This Dear and Fine Country (1985)
- Ray Guy's Best (1987)
- Ray Guy: The Smallwood Years (2008)
References
- ^ a b Gushue, John (14 May 2013). "Newfoundland satirist Ray Guy dies at 74". CBC News. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
- ^ "President's Report 2000-2001: Ray David George Guy". Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- ^ Guy, Ray. "Forget the flag. Let's dump that sucky flower". Atlantic Insight Magazine, August 1980. Impact Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ Guy, Ray. "Dealing with dialects". Atlantic Insight Magazine, February 1987. Insight Publishing Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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