Information AboutMarian Engel |
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Born Marian Ruth Passmore in Toronto, Ontario , she was educated at McMaster University and McGill University , where she wrote her Masters thesis on the English Canadian novel, under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan . She taught briefly at McGill and at the University Of Montana . She married Howard Engel in 1962, and began to raise a family and pursue a writing career. Her first published novel, ''No Clouds of Glory'', was published in 1968. Engel's most famous and controversial novel was ''Bear'' (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a Bear which won the Governor General's Award that year. She also wrote a number of children's books. Her other works included: ''The Honeyman Festival'' (1970), ''Monodromos'' (1974), ''Inside the Easter Egg'' (1975), ''The Glassy Sea'' (1979), ''Lunatic Villas'' (1981), ''The Tattooed Woman'' (1985), ''Joanne'', and ''Sunbeams from a Golden Machine''. In 1982 she was made an Officer of the Order Of Canada . After Engel's death in 1985, the Writer's Development Trust of Canada instituted the Marian Engel Award , which is presented annually to a woman writer in mid-career. |
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