Greg Hollingshead
Canadian novelist (born 1947)
Biography
Gregory Hollingshead, CM (born February 25, 1947) is a Canadian novelist. He was formerly a professor of English at the University of Alberta, and he lives in Toronto, Ontario.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools and the University of Toronto.
His 1995 short story collection The Roaring Girl won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1995 Governor General's Awards. His 1998 novel The Healer won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012.
As a professor with the Department of English & Film Studies, Hollingshead taught creative writing classes for 30 years; he retired as emeritus in 2005. From 2000 to 2018, he directed the Writing Studio at the Banff Centre.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Alberta
Awards & honours (3)
- Member of the Order of Canada
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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