Marilyn Bowering has received many awards for her writing (both poetry and fiction) including the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize and several National Magazine awards. Her work has been short-listed for the Governor General's Prize and for significant international awards including the Dublin Impac Award, the Orange Prize, the Sony Award and the Prix Italia. She was a 2008 Fulbright Scholar at New York University. Her most recent books are "Green" (poetry) and "What It Takes To Be Human" (novel): a new novel, The Storykeeper's Daughters, is forthcoming. Marilyn has travelled extensively and has lived in Greece, Scotland, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Spain; her work has been translated into Punjabi, Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish and Greek. She makes her home in Sooke, B.C. but thinks that being born in Winnipeg and growing up with stories of Winnipeg's cultural mix has helped form the cultural overlap themes of much of her fiction.
She is a Professor in the Creative Writing and Journalism Department at Vancouver Island University in British Columbia. She is a passionate although sporadic hiker involved in a project of hiking the Sooke hills and also (although not concurrently) exploring some of the accessible heights of southwest France.
Awards
National Magazine Award for Poetry, Du Maurier Award, Gold,1977
Nomination for best script, Prix Italia, "Grandfather Was A Soldier", 1982
Short listed for the Governor General's award, The Sunday before Winter: New and Selected Poetry 1984
Nominated for best script, Sony Award, "Anyone Can See I Love You", 1986
Nomination for Best Script for the Actra Awards, Laika and Folchakov, A Journey in Time and Space
National Magazine Award for Poetry, Silver, 1988
Short-listed for the W.H. Smith First Books Award, To All Appearances A Lady 1990
Short-listed for Ethel Wilson Prize, To All Appearances A Lady, 1990
New York Times Notable Book Award, To All Appearances A Lady, 1990
International Animation Festival, Unicef Animation Award for "Divine Fate" 1994
Earth Peace International Film Festival, Heart of the Festival Award for "Divine Fate" 1994
Malahat Review Long Poem Prize (1994)
Received the Pat Lowther Award for Autobiography, 1997
Nominated for Governor General's Award, Autobiography, 1997
Nominated for Dorothy Livesay Prize, Autobiography, 1997
Received Ethel Wilson Prize, Visible Worlds, 1998
Nominated for the Dublin IMPAC award, Visible Worlds, 1999
Short-listed for the Orange Prize, Visible Worlds. 1999
Short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Prize, The Alchemy of Happiness, 2004
Short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Prize, What It Takes To Be Human, 2007
Received Canada-U.S Fulbright Award 2008
Selected Publications
Green (Exile Editions, 2007) ISBN: 978-1-55096-094-5
The Alchemy of Happiness (Beach Holme Publishing (now Dundurn Books),2003) ISBN: 0-88878-435-X
Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems (Beach Holme Publishing (now Dundurn Books), 1999) ISBN: 9 780888 783950
The Sunday Before Winter: New and Selected Poems (General Publishing, 1984) ISBN: 0 7736 1453 3
Selected Anthologies
Rocksalt (MotherTongue Publishing, 2008) ISBN: 978 1 896949 01 7
Writing Life ( McClelland & Steward, 2006) ISBN: 0-7710-7625-8
New Oxford Book of Canadian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN: 978-0195404500
Books in Print
Bowering, Marilyn
Green (Exile Editions, 2007) ISBN: 978-1-55096-094-5 $19.95
The Alchemy of Happiness (Beach Holme Publishing (now Dundurn Books),2003) ISBN: 0-88878-435-X $13.95
Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems (Beach Holme Publishing (now Dundurn Books), 1999) ISBN: 9 780888 783950 $16.95
The Sunday Before Winter: New and Selected Poems (General Publishing, 1984) ISBN: 0 7736 1453 3
To All Appearances a Lady. Novel (Penguin Canada, 2007) ISBN: 0-14-1305346-9 $18.00
What It Takes To Be Human.Novel. (Penguin Canada, 2006) ISBN: 978-0-14-305387-3 $26.00
Cat's Pilgrimage.Novel. (Harper Collins Canada, 2004) ISBN: 0-00-639204-0 $19.95
Visible Worlds. Novel (HarperCollins Canada, 1997) ISBN: 9 780006 481256 $19.95
Marilyn Bowering
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