David Carpenter
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Born in 1941, David Carpenter lived in Edmonton as a child, then as an undergraduate student of French, German, and education at the University of Alberta, and finally as a graduate student in English literature. He pursued graduate studies at several Canadian and American universities, and after graduation, he taught American literature in a fellowship with the University of Manitoba, his course being at a prison near Winnipeg. At this point, he had published a collection of poems and some translations of French literature. He moved on to a position at the University of Saskatchewan in 1975. Over time, he developed his talent for writing on his own and with some guidance from others, including notable Canadian writer Robert Kroetsch. When one of his stories was published in Saturday Night in 1981, he began writing vocationally. He moved to Toronto and in two years released a novel, Jewels, and a pair of novellas entitled Jokes for the Apocalypse. He moved to Saskatchewan, and published God’s Bedfellows in 1987. In 1988, his story “The Ketzer” won the Canadian Novella Contest. He was teaching at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and outside of periodicals and anthologies, another major work did not appear until 1994, when he released Writing Home, a collection of essays. Two works of non-fiction followed, Fishing in the West in 1995 and Courting Saskatchewan in 1996, both of which, like most of his fiction, are intimately connected with the Canadian West. He received a Saskatchewan Book Award for Courting Saskatchewan, and then retired from academia to fully concentrate on writing. read a passage from Banjo Lessons REAL AUDIO: More readings: BibliographyTrout Stream Creed. Regina: Coteau Books, 2003.
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