Some of the latter, which often demonstrated an anticlerical slant, were censored in Ireland for sacrilege, including all three of his novels. His output included more poetry as well as plays and novels. Clarke then moved to England to find stable work, making his living there as a journalist and editor for the next fifteen years. He taught at University College for several years until he was forced out due to his civil marriage to playwright Lia Cummins the union was a failure, and the pair separated.
This long narrative poem, based on a tale from the Fenian cycle, met with great success, going into a rare second edition and winning him friends among the literary elite.
Camille A.Upon earning his MA with honors in 1917, Clarke published his first book, The Vengeance of Fionn. Mehta, Sarah Phillips Casteel, Maggie Quirt, Victor J. This collection includes essays by Michael Buchnor, George Elliott Clarke, Daniel Coleman, Camille Isaacs, Smaro Kamboureli, Linda MacKinley-Hay, Brinda J.
In 2012, he was the recipient of the $10,000 Harbourfront Award. In 1999 he received the Martin Luther King Junior Award for Excellence in Writing. Clarke has also received a Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature (1992) and in 1998 he was invested with the Order of Canada. In 2003 he had a private audience with Queen Elisabeth in honour of his Commonwealth Prize for his novel, The Polished Hoe, which also won the Giller Prize in 2002.
In 1999 his ninth novel, The Question, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. The Origin of Waves won the Rogers Communications Writers' Development Trust Prize for Fiction in 1997. Storm of Fortune, the second novel in his Toronto Trilogy about the lives of Barbadian immigrants, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 1973. His latest work, a long-form poem titled Where the Sun Shines Best (Guernica Editions), was published in 2013. Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published 11 novels, six short-story collections, four memoirs, and two non-fiction pieces.
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