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By the 1990s, Canadian literature was viewed as some of the world's best, and Canadian authors began to accumulate international awards. [1] In 1992, Michael Ondaatje became the first Canadian to win the Booker Prize for The English Patient. Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for The Life of Pi. Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 IMPAC Award for No Great Mischief. Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and in 1998 her novel Larry's Party won the Orange Prize. Douglas Coupland has ... achieved significant success for his work, particularly Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
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Among early Canadian works in English were the accounts of 18th- and early 19th-century explorers such as Samuel Hearne (1745–92), Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser (1776–1862), and David Thompson. The first novel produced in Canada, indeed in North America, was The History of Emily Montague (1769), an account of contemporary Québec, realistically written by Frances Moore Brooke (1724–89), wife of an English army chaplain.
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Canadian literature in English began early in the 19th century in the Maritime Provinces with the humorous tales of T C Haliburton (1796–1865). Charles Heavysege (1816–1876) published poems combining psychological insight with Puritan values. The late 19th century brought the lyrical output of Charles G D Roberts, Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Archibald Lampman (1861–1899), and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1944). Realism in fiction developed with Frederick P Grove, Mazo de la Roche, creator of the ‘Jalna’ series, and Hugh MacLennan. Humour of worldwide appeal emerged in Stephen Leacock; Brian Moore, author of The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960); and Mordecai Richler. Also widely read outside Canada was L M Montgomery (1874–1942), whose Anne of Green Gables (1908) became a children's classic.
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In 1988, Canadian Literature became the first and only journal to win the Gabrielle Roy Prize for best English book-length studies in Canadian and Québec literary criticism. Most recently, the US-based Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) presented Eva-Marie Kröller with a Distinguished Editor award in 2004 in recognition of her work with Canadian Literature. Kröller's award is not the only recognition to come to the journal in recent years. In 2004, William H. New was awarded the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies. The three most recent editors—New, Kröller, and Ricou—are ... recipients of the Killam Teaching Awards.
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French-Canadian literature began to greatly expand with the turmoil of the Second World War, the beginnings of industrialization in the 1950s, and most especially the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. French-Canadian literature ... began to attract a great deal of attention globally, with Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet winning the Prix Goncourt. An experimental branch of Quebecois literature also developed; for instance the poet Nicole Brossard wrote in a formalist style. In 1979, Roch Carrier wrote the story The Hockey Sweater, which highlighted the cultural and social tensions between English and French speaking Canada.
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Canadian gay literature is almost a contradiction in terms. Frequently written by authors born in the United States and published there as well, it is difficult to distinguish from writing in more dominant English-speaking cultures. Caught between the traditionally overwhelming influence of British culture and, more recently, the powerful stranglehold of American literature, the Canadian voice (gay or straight) is hard to hear.
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