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Announcing the 2012 Canadian Literature Symposium The Worlds of Carol Shields April 27-29 2012 Essayist and fiction writer, playwright and poet, CAROL SHIELDS had an extraordinary literary career, winning, among other prizes, the American Book Critics’ Circle Award, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the Governor General’s award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize. The University of Ottawa granted her an MA (1975) and conferred on her the first of her honorary degrees (1995). Proposals are invited for this major conference. All topics are welcome, biographical, literary, and especially new methodologies of reading her many writings. Send electronic or paper proposals by September 15, 2011 to David Staines (dstaines@uottawa.ca) Follow us on Twitter @CanLitSymposium |