![]() ![]() We discussed Marian Engel’s 1976 Governor General Award-winning novel, Bear, which will be re-released on December 9th with a gorgeous new cover. Marian Engel is popularly remembered as the author of one novel, Bear (1976), a succès de scandale in its day, which won the Governor-General’s Award for Fiction. Engel continues her career living in Toronto. Lunatic Villas was co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Awards in 1982. Her novel Bear won the 1976 Governor General’s Award. ![]() I think I first heard about this book in university and was probably rolling my eyes. ![]() (1957) from McGill University, where she wrote her thesis, “The Canadian Novel, 1921-55,” under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan.īear (1976, 141 Pages) Bear, published in 1976, is apparently “the most controversial novel ever written in Canada”. (1955) from McMaster University and her M.A. She grew up in the Ontario towns of Brantford, Galt, Hamilton, and Sarnia. Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933. ![]() Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic l… Marian Engel’s wiki: Marian Engel, OC, née Marian Ruth Passmore (– February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers’ Union of Canada. ![]()
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