Warren Cariou | |
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Born | 1966 (age 57–58)
Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Spouse | Alison Calder |
Awards | Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Institutions | University of Manitoba |
Warren Cariou is a Canadian writer and associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. [1]
Cariou received a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto (1998). In 1999 he published a book of short stories, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, with Coteau Books. This was followed up in 2002 with his memoir Lake of the Prairies, which gained him a wider audience. It won the 2002 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and was shortlisted for the 2004 Charles Taylor Prize. [2] In 2005 Cariou served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. [3]
Cariou was one of three featured authors in Coming Attractions '95, and has had short stories appear in Stag Line: Stories by Men and Due West, both published by Coteau Books. As well, his fiction was awarded a CBC Literary Competition Prize in 1991.
He grew up on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, a place he describes in Lake of the Prairies. He has worked as a construction labourer, a technical writer and a political advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto and now teaches Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba. He is currently working on a novel entitled Exhaust. Cariou is married to the poet and literature professor Alison Calder. Cariou is also the director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture [4] and is also an activist for the Protection of Indigenous Oralities. [5]
Warren Cariou | |
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Born | 1966 (age 57–58)
Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Spouse | Alison Calder |
Awards | Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Institutions | University of Manitoba |
Warren Cariou is a Canadian writer and associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. [1]
Cariou received a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto (1998). In 1999 he published a book of short stories, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, with Coteau Books. This was followed up in 2002 with his memoir Lake of the Prairies, which gained him a wider audience. It won the 2002 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and was shortlisted for the 2004 Charles Taylor Prize. [2] In 2005 Cariou served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. [3]
Cariou was one of three featured authors in Coming Attractions '95, and has had short stories appear in Stag Line: Stories by Men and Due West, both published by Coteau Books. As well, his fiction was awarded a CBC Literary Competition Prize in 1991.
He grew up on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, a place he describes in Lake of the Prairies. He has worked as a construction labourer, a technical writer and a political advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto and now teaches Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba. He is currently working on a novel entitled Exhaust. Cariou is married to the poet and literature professor Alison Calder. Cariou is also the director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture [4] and is also an activist for the Protection of Indigenous Oralities. [5]