玛格丽特.劳伦斯

1、MARGARET LAURENCE 21班 张雅涵Margaret Laurence, (18 July 1926 5 January 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canadas writing

2、 community. 玛格丽特.劳伦斯,婚前名叫琼玛格丽特威米斯，是苏格兰爱尔兰后裔，四岁时就失去母亲，九岁时父亲也离她而去，她的苏格兰祖父、祖母是长老会信徒，传授给她上帝裁断功过的威严形象。这些经历，在玛格丽特的小说中都刻上了印迹，玛格丽特年纪很小便崭露写作的天赋，中学时就有作品散见校报报端。她十八岁离开家乡到现在的温尼伯格联合学院读书，毕业后受聘为温尼伯格城市报的记者 。In 1944, Laurence attended Winnipegs United College on scholarship, pursuing an honours English degree. She wr

3、ote for the student newspaper and became involved with the Old Left socialist reform group. She graduated in 1947. Soon afterwards, she was hired as a reporter for The Winnipeg Citizen. The first is the translation of A Tree of Poverty ，to reproduce the Somali poetry and stories. Then, she created a

4、 series of stories, described are from ancient tribes to modern societyof the Africa, especially the description of Gold Coast (Garner) of a series of short stories. In 1954, these works published in various periodicals gradually, was entitled The tomorrow Tamer s collection of short stories. Lauren

5、ce lived in Africa also wrote three other books: This Side of Jordan (1960) is about Garners struggle for independence The Prophets Camel Bell (1963) describes the Laurence experience in Somalia two years of life, the novel is based on her diary compiled Long Drums and Cannons (1968) review the Alge

6、ria writers in the English languageLiterary Career After Margaret in 1957 from the Africa returned to Vancouver, began a The Stone Angel writing.The novel was published in 1964 and won critical acclaim, thus laid the important position of Margaret in Canadian literature. The Canadian Governor Genera

7、ls award was published in 1966, A Jest of God awarded in 1967, and was adapted into a film, Rachel ,Rachel . Published in 1969, The Fire Dwellers seems to be a sequel to A Jest of God Published in 1970, A Bird in the House a collection of eight short stories by Margaret, is mainly about the Vanessa

8、MacLeod growing pains and happiness . These novel effects in Canada, reveals the power of local literature and universality,Laurence was named 1960s come first on the list of novelists. The Stone Angel is also known as the Canadian literature masterpieces. 1969 to 70 years, she returned to Canada, a

9、s a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, and bought a summervilla in the fertile Tuonabi. In 1971, Laurence was awarded the Canadian celebrity list.From the Africa early works, to the later novels, even in her writing childrens books,Laurence has repeatedly described a life in pursuit of

10、 the life of everyone, not onlytake ones ease and full of happiness.On the other hand, in all her horse that Manna Vaca series of novels, tradition is an eternal theme . In 1973, Margaret returned to his hometown, living in Ontario Lake Field. In 1974, she completed the series finale The Diviners. T

11、he book was published,Margaret said in an interview with reporters, she hope that readers will be the five novels as a reading. Since then, although Margaret has published four collections of childrens stories and some comments on the article, but she had never set foot in the novel.Collection of essays, Heart of A Stranger (1976) collection of her writing in the past twelve years the short. She put the main attention to social activities, to promote peace, equa