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Name
  
John Steffler


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
University of Toronto, University of Guelph

Nominations
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Books
  
The Grey Islands, Afterlife of George Cartwright, That night we were ravenous, Helix, Lookout

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John Steffler is an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist. He was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2008.

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Biography

John Steffler was born in Toronto in 1947, and grew up in a rural area near Thornhill, Ontario. He has an M.A. in English (1974) from the University of Guelph. Thesis: "The Origin and Development of Los: a Study of the Prophetic Poetry of William Blake." His B.A. (Honours) in English was from University College, University of Toronto, 1971. Areas of concentration: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature. Other areas of study: French, European History, Chinese Philosophy, Japanese Literature in Translation.

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John Steffler Wikipedia