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Byrna Barclay

{{Short description|Canadian writer and editor (1940–2023)}}

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Byrna Robin Barclay {{post-nominals|country=CAN|SOM}} ({{nee}} Burton; October 8, 1940 – May 7, 2023) was a Canadian writer and editor in Saskatchewan.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/barclay_byrna_1940-.html |title=Barclay, Byrna (1940–) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |last=Thompson |first=Christian}}

Early life

Barclay was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 1962, she moved to Regina, Saskatchewan.

Career

Barclay served as president of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and also was editor of Freelance, the Guild's newsletter, and fiction editor of Grain, its literary journal. She was founding editor of Transition, a magazine for the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. She was also vice-chair of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

Honours

In 2004, Barclay was named to the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.sk.ca/news-archive/2004/11/16-716-attachment.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Order of Merit |year=2004 |publisher=Government of Saskatchewan |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006074850/http://www.gov.sk.ca/news-archive/2004/11/16-716-attachment.pdf |archivedate=October 6, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}

Personal life and death

Barclay married Ronald Barclay and together they had two children. She died on May 7, 2023, at the age of 82.{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/byrna-barclay-obituary?id=51910612 |title=Byrna Barclay |publisher=Legacy.com |access-date=May 14, 2023}}

Bibliography

Her works include:

  • Summer of the Hungry Pup (1982), which received the Saskatchewan Culture and Youth First Novel Award
  • The Last Echo (1983)
  • Winter of the White Wolf (1985)
  • From the Belly of a Flying Whale (1988)
  • Crosswinds (1996), which won the Best Fiction category of the Saskatchewan Book Awards
  • Searching for the Nude in the Landscape (1997)
  • Girl at the Window (2004), which won the Readers' Choice Award of the Saskatchewan Book Awards
  • The Forest Horses (2010){{cite journal |url=http://sk.cmha.ca/files/2013/10/TranstionWinter20131.pdf |title=A brief literary biography of Byrna Barclay |journal=Transition |date=Winter 2013 |page=4 |access-date=October 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121901/http://sk.cmha.ca/files/2013/10/TranstionWinter20131.pdf |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
  • House of the White Elephant (2015)

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Category:1940 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:Canadian women novelists

Category:Members of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit

Category:Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan

Category:Writers from Saskatoon

Category:Novelists from Saskatchewan

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