Laurie Block
{{Short description|Canadian poet and educator}}
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Laurie Block (1949–2018) was a Canadian poet{{cite news|title=Biography of Dorise Nielsen wins 4 Manitoba book awards|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/biography-of-dorise-nielsen-wins-4-manitoba-book-awards-1.656643|access-date=17 October 2010|newspaper=CBC News|date=April 28, 2007}} and educator. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.
Bibliography
- Governing Bodies - poetry, 1988 {{ISBN|0-88801-140-7}}
- Foreign Graces/Bendiciones Ajenas - poetry, 1999 {{ISBN|1-896239-48-X}}
- Time Out of Mind - poetry, 2006 {{ISBN|0-88982-225-5}}
Awards
- Honourable Mention, League of Canadian Poets Annual Contest, 1990{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- First place in the Manitoba Writers' Guild Writing Contest, 1993{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Third place, dANDelion Poetry Contest, 1994{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- First place in the Manitoba Writers' Guild Writing Contest, 1994{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Honourable Mention, League of Canadian Poets Annual Contest, 1997 and 1990{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Honourable Mention, Arc Magazine poem of the year contest, 1998{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Second and third prize, Bliss Carman Poetry Award, 1999{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- First prize, Prairie Fire Fiction Contest 2003{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Gold Medal Award for short fiction, National Magazine Awards, Canada, 2004{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
- Winner, Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, 2007
References
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- *denotes obituary which appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on September 1, 2018
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706184159/http://www.laurieblock.ca/about/index.html Laurie Block]
- [http://www.oolichan.com/ Oolichan Books]
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Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Writers from Winnipeg
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
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