Stan Dragland
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December 2, 1942
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Stan Dragland | |
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| Born | Stanley Louis Dragland December 2, 1942 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Died | August 2, 2022 (aged 79) Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, literary criticism, essays |
| Notable works |
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| Notable awards | Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award |
Stanley Louis Dragland CM (December 2, 1942 – August 2, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic.[1] A longtime professor of English literature at the University of Western Ontario,[2] he was most noted for his 1994 critical study Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which played a key role in the contemporary reevaluation of the legacy of poet Duncan Campbell Scott in light of his role as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs.[3]
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Dragland was educated at the University of Alberta and Queen's University.[1] While teaching at Western, he was a founder of the poetry publisher Brick Books and the literary magazine Brick.[4]
His first novel, Peckertracks, was a shortlisted finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1] He won the Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award in 2005 for his memoir Apocrypha: Further Journeys,[5] and he was a shortlisted finalist for the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award in 2007 for Stormy Weather: Foursomes.[1]
He wrote the forewords for the New Canadian Library editions of Scott's In the Village of Viger and Other Stories and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers.
