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Blaise, Clark Lee was born on April 10, 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Arrived in Canada, 1966,arrived in United States, 1980, naturalized, 1980. Son of Léo Roméo Blais and Anne Marion Vanstone.
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(The Meagre Tarmac) Author: Clark Blaise published on (June, 2011)
(Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Pr...)
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award "Clark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply -- and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise's fiction is renowned ...The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment."--Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father's funeral because he was "trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father's body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate." It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as "'a very lonely, very rich, very guilty immigrant.'" And in between is a cluster of remarkable characters, incensed by the conflict between personal desire and responsibility, who exhaust themselves in pursuit of the miraculous. Fearless and ferociously intelligent, these stories are vintage Blaise, whose outsider's view of the changing heart of America has always been ruthless and moving and tender.
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The Meagre Tarmac
( Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction ...)
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award "Clark Blaise’s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaise’s fiction is renowned . The Meagre Tarmac is a remarkable accomplishment."Joyce Carol Oates An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, The Meagre Tarmac explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force. It begins with Vivek Waldekar, who refused to attend his father’s funeral because he was trying to please an American girl who thought starting a fire in his father’s body too gross a sacrilege to contemplate.” It ends with Pranab Dasgupta, the Rockefeller of India, who can only describe himself as a very lonely, very rich, very guilty immigrant.’” And in between is a cluster of remarkable characters, incensed by the conflict between personal desire and responsibility, who exhaust themselves in pursuit of the miraculous. Fearless and ferociously intelligent, these stories are vintage Blaise, whose outsider’s view of the changing heart of America has always been ruthless and moving and tender.
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I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography
(A prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusiv...)
A prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusive parent. Blaise writes that "even now I don't know if my father was sane or disturbed, a victim or a killer. I don't even know if I am his only child." He brings to his journey a novelist's eye, a detective's methodology, and an evocation of place unparalleled in modern letters.
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I Had a Father; a Post-modern Autobiography.
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Lunar Attractions
( "Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down."—The New Yor...)
"Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down."—The New York Times Book Review First published in 1979, Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, a whimsical boy from the Florida backwoods whose shocking sexual awakening propels him into the world of murder and extortion that roils beneath the surface of 1950s America.
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Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
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Days and nights in Calcutta
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If I Were Me
( Clark Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 to...)
Clark Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 to French and Anglo-Canadian parents. He moved often during his childhood years as the family followed the usually disastrous fortunes of his furniture salesman father which have been chronicled in the author's 'post-modern' autobiography I Had a Father. Blaise graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1961 and then went to Harvard to study writing with Bernard Malamud. In 1962 he moved to attend the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, where he met and married the well-known American novelist, Bharati Mukherjee. He emigrated to Montreal in 1966 in search of his French-Canadian roots and taught for the next twelve years at Sir George Williams University where he established what is now Concordia's creative writing workshop. After a brief period at York University, Clark and Bharati moved back to the United States where Clark took up the position of Director of the prestigious International Writing School at Iowa. Blaise's brilliance was immediately obvious in his first two books of stories A North American Education and Tribal Justice. After more than twenty years they remain monumental in the world of the Canadian Short Story. The stories that make up the novel If I Were Me are written in a different style and cadence, sombre and demanding work which will enlarge Blaise's already stellar reputation. Barry Cameron writing in Canadian Writers and Their Works concludes his article with the following words: 'Blaise has given us, in my judgement, some of the most rewarding books of fiction ever produced in Canada.'
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Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy
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Clark Lee Blaise
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Clark Lee Blaise, American writer, educator. Recipient award National Education Association, Guggenheim Foundation, Canada Council, St. Lawrence award, Great Lakes Colleges award, Books in Canada First Novel award, Book of Year award Canada Booksellers, 1995, Pearson prize, 2002, Officer of Order of Canada, 2010.
Education
Bachelor, Denison University, 1961. Doctor (honorary), Denison University, 1979. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1964.
Doctorate (honorary), McGill University, 2004.
Career
Professor Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1966-1978, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1978-1980, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1980-1984. Visiting professor Emory University, Atlanta, 1984-1985, University California, Berkeley, 1998-2000. Adjunct professor Columbia University, New York City, 1986-1989, New York University, New York City, 1986-1989.
Professor, director international writing University Iowa, Iowa City, 1990-1998, Southampton College, Long Island University, 2002—2005. Book reviewer, lecturer, presenter workshops in field.
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(The Meagre Tarmac) Author: Clark Blaise published on (June, 2011)
(Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Pr...)
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The Meagre Tarmac
( Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction ...)
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If I Were Me
( Clark Blaise was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940 to...)
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I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography
(A prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusiv...)
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Lunar Attractions
( "Engaging, stirring, and hard to put down."—The New Yor...)
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Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy
(Book by Blaise, Clark)
- Lunar Attractions
- I Had a Father; a Post-modern Autobiography.
- Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
- Days and nights in Calcutta
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(The Meagre Tarmac) Author: Clark Blaise published on (June, 2011)
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Married Bharati Mukherjee, September 19, 1963. Children: Bart Anand, Bernard Sudhir.
