George Fetherling

2003

George Fetherling of Vancouver, born 1949, has long been known as one of Canada's most prolific and versatile men-of-letters. He's the author or editor of more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, essays, history and biography, and he writes a books-and-ideas column in the weekend Vancouver Sun. George Fetherling is a poet, fiction writer, and voyager.

Former literary editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard and the Toronto Star, former writer-in-residence at Queen's University and the University of New Brunswick.

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Publications

• The Blue Notebook: Reports on Canadian Culture (essays,Moasic, 1985)
• Variorum: New Poems and Old 1965-85 (poetry, Hounslow, 1985)
• Documents in Canadian Art (editor) (anthology, Broadview, 1987)
• The Crowded - -Darkness (film criticism, Quarry, 1989)
• The Rise of the Canadian Newspaper (history, Oxford University Press, 1990)
• The Gold Crusades: A Social History of God Rushes1849-1929 (history, University of Toronto Press, 1997) (reviseded.)
• The Dreams of Ancient Peoples (poetry, ECW, 1991)
• Some Day Soon (muic criticism, Quarry,1991)
• Year of the Horse: A Journey through Russia and China (travel, Stoddart, 1991)
• Selected Poems (poetry, Aresenal Pulp Press, 1994)
• The Other China: Journeys around Taiwan (travel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995)
• Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties (memoir, MacArthur & Co., 2000) (reprint ed.)
• Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast (memoir, MacArthur & Co., 2001). (reprinted.)
• The File on Arthur Moss (novel, Subway Books, 2000) (reprinted.)
• The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock (biography, Douglas & McIntyre, 1998)
• Running away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter (travel, McClelland & Stewart, 1998)
• Madagascar: Poems & Translations (poetry, Black Moss, 1999)
• Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins (reference, Random House, 2001)
• Jive Talk: George Fetherling in Interviews & Documents, ed. by Joe Blades (interviews, Broken Jaw Press, 2001)
• Represented in 50+ anthology in Canada, US, UK and Mexico

Awards

• D.Litt honoris causa, St. Mary's University, Halifax, 1997.
• Harbourfront Festival Prize "for substantial contribution to Canadian literature", 1995.
• Shortlisted for Trillium Award for Travels By Night, 1994.
• Asia-Pacific Foundation Fellow in China, 1990.