Name Greg Hollingshead Role Novelist | Education University of Toronto | |
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Awards Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books The Roaring Girl, The healer, Bedlam, The People of the Sudan: S, Spin Dry Similar People Dee Henderson, Doris Giller, John Brosnan | ||
Nominations Scotiabank Giller Prize | ||
Gregory "Greg" Hollingshead, CM (born 25 February 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist. He was formerly a professor of English at the University of Alberta, and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
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He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools and the University of Toronto.
His 1995 short story collection The Roaring Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction at the 1995 Governor General's Awards, His 1998 novel The Healer won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012.
As a professor with the Department of English & Film Studies, Hollingshead taught creative writing classes for 30 years. In 2005, Greg Hollingshead retired and retained an honorary title of "professor emeritus" for all his contributions and achievements in the Faculty of Arts. He now directs three writing programs at the Banff Centre and continues to mentor rising writers.
Early life and education
Greg Hollingshead as born in Toronto, Ontario, on February 25, 1947, and grew up in Woodbridge, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Hollinghead's first publication was in an anthology of poets from Toronto in 1968 called "House of Anansi".
Hollingshead later went back to university to complete his Master of Arts in English at the University of Toronto and by 1975, he had earned his Ph.D. from the University of London.
Career
Hollingshead published his first collection of stories, Famous Players, in 1982. In 1992, he had completed another two publications, White Buick and Spin Dry, and by 1995 he was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction for his story collection, The Roaring Girl, which has now been published all throughout North America, Germany, China, and the UK.
The Healer, Greg's second novel, was published in 1998 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. Hollingshead would go on to win the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 1998 for The Healer. Hollingshead's third novel, Bedlam, was published in 2004 and was listed for several awards, including the Grant MacEwan Author's Award, the Georges Bugnet Award, and the Edmonton Book Prize.