Adele Wiseman
Canadian writer
Adele Wiseman (May 21, 1928 – June 1, 1992)[ 1] [ 2] was a Canadian author.
Born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , she received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1949.[ 2] Her parents were Russian Jews who emigrated from Ukraine to Canada, in part, to escape the pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War .[ 3]
In 1956, Wiseman published her first novel, The Sacrifice, which won the Governor General's Award ,[ 4] Canada's most prestigious literary prize. Her novel, Crackpot, was published in 1974.[ 2] Both novels deal with Jewish immigrant heritage, the struggle to survive the Depression and World War II , and the challenges the next generation faced in acculturating to Canadian society.
Wiseman also published plays, children's stories, essays, and other non-fiction. Her book, Old Woman at Play, examines and meditates on the creative process while paying tribute to Wiseman's mother and the dolls she made.[ 5]
Wiseman was lifelong friends with Margaret Laurence who was another Canadian author from Manitoba.[ 2] She was an active and accessible Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor in her final years. At a campus rally against the First Gulf War, she read passionately a new poem denouncing war.
Awards
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction for The Sacrifice (1956)[ 2] [ 6]
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Award (1957)[ 2]
Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1957)[ 2]
Canadian Foundation fellowship (1957)[ 2]
Guggenheim fellowship (1958) [ 2]
Canada Council Arts Scholarship (1959)[ 2]
Leipzig Book Fair Bronze Medal (1964)[ 2]
Canadian Booksellers Association Book Award (1974)[ 2]
J. I. Segal Foundation Award (1974 and 1988)[ 2]
Three Guineas Charitable Foundation Agency Award (1984–1985)[ 2]
Selected works
The Sacrifice (1956)
Old Markets, New World (1964)
Crackpot (1974)
Old Woman at Play (1978)
Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays (1987)
Kenji and the Cricket (1988)
Puccini and the Prowlers (1992)
Further reading
Ruth Panofsky (2006). The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman . University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 0-88755-689-2 .
Valerie-Kristin Piehslinger. Portrayals of Urban Jewish Communities in U.S. American and Canadian Immigrant Fiction in Selected Texts by Anzia Yezierska and Adele Wiseman. AV Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken 2013 ISBN 9783639463538 urn :nbn:de:101:1-201304031931
Adam Sol, David S. Koffman, Gary Barwin, Michael Greenstein, Ruth Panofsky, Lisa Richter, Emily Robins Sharpe, and Rhea Tregebov. “Canadian Jewish Poetry: A Roundtable” , Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes vol. 34, 2022.
References
External links
1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker , The Pillar (1952)
David Walker , Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall , Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies , The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence , The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel , Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley , The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro , The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington , Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra , The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas , Five Wives (2019)
2020s
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