Throughout the years he has always been a passionate outdoorsman and environmentalist. It won the Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. He brought out a second book of essays about life around home, a month-by-month salute to the seasons entitled Courting Saskatchewan. One of these essays was featured on CBC Radio's `Ideas`. Several of these pieces won prizes for literary journalism and for humour in the Western Magazine Awards. The essays explore his engagements with such writers as Richard Ford, the French writer/scientist Georges Bugnet, and the late Raymond Carver. During the early nineties he also finished the last of his personal and literary essays which make up Writing Home, his first collection of nonfiction.
A first novel, Banjo Lessons was published in 1997 and won the City of Edmonton Book Prize. In 1997 Carpenter turned to writing full-time. Jokes for the Apocalypse was runner up for the Gerald Lampert Award, and his novella The Ketzer won first prize in the Descant Novella Contest.
at the University of Alberta.īetween 19 Carpenter published a series of novellas and long stories - Jokes for the Apocalypse, Jewels and God's Bedfellows. He returned to Canada in 1967 and once again taught school until the summer of 1969, when he enrolled for his Ph. He graduated and taught high school in Edmonton until 1965, then migrated south to do an M.A. He read French and German at the University of Alberta to indifferent effect. Mordecai Richler was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2001.ĭavid Carpenter spent his first twenty-three years in Edmonton, working during the summers as a car hop, a driver for Brewster Rocky Mountain Grayline, a fish stocker, a trail guide, and a folksinger. During his career, he was the recipient of dozens of literary awards, including two Governor General's Awards, The Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He gained international acclaim with The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which was later made into a movie. Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) wrote ten novels numerous screenplays, essays, children's books and several works of non-fiction.
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