Anne Cameron Recipient of 16th George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award
For Immediate Release, July 20, 2010
(Vancouver, B.C.) – Anne Cameron, whose work has primarily portrayed the lives of women in so-called working-class coastal communities and who has created feminist renderings of Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth legends, is the 16th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.
Cameron, a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, screenplays and legends, will receive the award on July 29 at the Central Library and her name will be inscribed on a plaque to be added to Writers Walk on the northeast plaza of Library Square. The award includes a $3000 cash prize.
“Given that the stories of British Columbia’s people and history are the subject of much of Anne Cameron’s writing, it is very fitting that she is awarded this prestigious award for her outstanding literary career in BC,” said Deputy Mayor Ellen Woodsworth who will proclaim July 29 Author Appreciation Day during the Woodcock Award event.
“Ms. Cameron has published more than 30 books, including novels, stories, poems and legends for adults and children. Her 1981 novel Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic selling over 200,000 copies and in 1979 her film Dreamspeaker, directed by the acclaimed Claude Jutra, won seven Canadian Film Awards including best script. She truly deserves her plaque on the Writer’s Walk among some of BC’s most-accomplished and best-loved writers.”
In 1974, she adapted a documentary poem and developed it into a play about racism, Windigo, the first presentation of Tillicum Theatre, the first First Nations theatre group in Canada.
The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library and the non-profit Pacific BookWorld News Society sponsor the annual George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.
“The Library is honoured to be a partner in awarding this important literary prize and that the Writers Walk is located at Library Square,” said City Librarian Paul Whitney.
Previous recipients include Alice Munro, P.K. Page, Jane Rule and W.P. Kinsella. For more information and a complete list of Lifetime Achievement Award winners, visit www.georgewoodcock.com.
Vancouver Public Library and BC BookWorld initiated a Lifetime Award for B.C. authors in 1995 at the official opening of the new Library Square complex.
Anne Cameron will receive the award at the Central Library on July 29 at 7 pm in the Alma VanDusen and Peter Kaye rooms.
(Vancouver, B.C.) – Anne Cameron, whose work has primarily portrayed the lives of women in so-called working-class coastal communities and who has created feminist renderings of Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth legends, is the 16th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.
Cameron, a prolific writer of fiction, poetry, screenplays and legends, will receive the award on July 29 at the Central Library and her name will be inscribed on a plaque to be added to Writers Walk on the northeast plaza of Library Square. The award includes a $3000 cash prize.
“Given that the stories of British Columbia’s people and history are the subject of much of Anne Cameron’s writing, it is very fitting that she is awarded this prestigious award for her outstanding literary career in BC,” said Deputy Mayor Ellen Woodsworth who will proclaim July 29 Author Appreciation Day during the Woodcock Award event.
“Ms. Cameron has published more than 30 books, including novels, stories, poems and legends for adults and children. Her 1981 novel Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic selling over 200,000 copies and in 1979 her film Dreamspeaker, directed by the acclaimed Claude Jutra, won seven Canadian Film Awards including best script. She truly deserves her plaque on the Writer’s Walk among some of BC’s most-accomplished and best-loved writers.”
In 1974, she adapted a documentary poem and developed it into a play about racism, Windigo, the first presentation of Tillicum Theatre, the first First Nations theatre group in Canada.
The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library and the non-profit Pacific BookWorld News Society sponsor the annual George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.
“The Library is honoured to be a partner in awarding this important literary prize and that the Writers Walk is located at Library Square,” said City Librarian Paul Whitney.
Previous recipients include Alice Munro, P.K. Page, Jane Rule and W.P. Kinsella. For more information and a complete list of Lifetime Achievement Award winners, visit www.georgewoodcock.com.
Vancouver Public Library and BC BookWorld initiated a Lifetime Award for B.C. authors in 1995 at the official opening of the new Library Square complex.
Anne Cameron will receive the award at the Central Library on July 29 at 7 pm in the Alma VanDusen and Peter Kaye rooms.
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Vancouver Public Library
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