Carolyn Marie Souaid Explained

Carolyn Marie Souaid
Birth Date:1 August 1959
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:writer, editor, educator
Language:English, French
Education:Bachelor, Master of Arts
Alma Mater:McGill University, Concordia University
Genre:poetry

Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1 August 1959) is a Canadian poet, educator, publisher and editor.[1]

Biography

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at McGill University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (1981) and a diploma in Education (1983), and at Concordia University, where she earned a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (1995). Her first poetry collection, Swimming into the Light, won the David McKeen Award for Poetry in 1996. Her books have been nominated for a number of literary awards in Canada including the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

Souaid's work focuses on pivotal moments in Québécois history[2] and on the difficult bridging of worlds (English/French; native/non-native).[3] In 2010, she and longtime poetic collaborator Endre Farkas produced Blood is Blood, a controversial video-poem dealing with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.[4]

Well known for her activism on the Montreal literary scene,[5] [6] [7] Souaid co-produced Poetry in Motion in 2004 (which brought poems to Montreal buses[8]) and Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret showcasing the "theatre" of poetry.[9] In 2009, she co-founded Poetry Quebec, an online review dedicated to the English language poetry and poets of Quebec.[10] From 2008 to 2011, she served as poetry editor for Signature Editions, one of Canada's top publishers of poetry.[11]

Souaid has lived most of her life in Montreal, except for three years spent teaching in Inuit villages along Quebec's Hudson-Ungava coast in the early 1980s.[12]

Selected works

Poetry

Fiction

Editor (selected publications)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: May 2008 . 12 or 20 questions: 12 or 20 questions: With Carolyn Marie Souaid .
  2. Web site: Satie's Sad Piano, by Carolyn Marie Souaid . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224642/http://aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=15&article=463&cat=3 . 2011-07-24 . 2011-01-06.
  3. Web site: October Crisis .
  4. Web site: Duo speak to places cursed by tribal hatreds . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120826031938/http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=7cbc6c2d-b46d-42c9-8176-638fff178081 . 2012-08-26 . 2011-01-06.
  5. Web site: Archived copy . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719142235/http://www.qwf.org/qwrite/pdf/may2010_qwrite.pdf . 2011-07-19 . 2011-01-06.
  6. Web site: QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors : Authors: View .
  7. Web site: missing .
  8. News: Sutherland . Anne . Words of a Somali Poet on Montreal Buses . The Gazette. }
  9. Web site: Montreal Mirror : 2006 Year in Review : Spoken Word . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120630173219/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/122106/yir_spokenword.html . 2012-06-30 . 2011-01-06.
  10. Web site: The other PQ | the Link . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110825014531/http://pre2010.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/1505 . 2011-08-25 . 2011-01-06.
  11. Web site: Signature Editions | About the Press . signature-editions.com.
  12. Souaid, C.1988. Inuit-controlled School System Clashes With Traditional Lifestyle. Information North: Newsletter of The Arctic Institute of North America 14:1-4.

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