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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Clark Blaise</b> <a href="Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">OC</a> (* <a href="10._April" title="10. April">10. April</a> <a href="1940" title="1940">1940</a> in <a href="Fargo" title="Fargo">Fargo</a>, <a href="North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a>, <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">Vereinigte Staaten</a>) ist ein <a href="Liste_kanadischer_Schriftsteller" title="Liste kanadischer Schriftsteller">kanadischer Schriftsteller</a> US-amerikanischer Herkunft, der 1979 den <a href="Amazon.ca_First_Novel_Award" title="Amazon.ca First Novel Award">Amazon.ca First Novel Award</a> gewann.
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<p>In Fargo, North Dakota, als Sohn kanadischer Eltern geboren lebt er gegenwärtig in <a href="San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="Kalifornien" title="Kalifornien">Kalifornien</a>. Seit 1963 ist er mit der Schriftstellerin <a href="Bharati_Mukherjee" title="Bharati Mukherjee">Bharati Mukherjee</a> verheiratet, mit der er zwei Söhne hat. Als Graduierter des <a href="Iowa_Writers%E2%80%99_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers’ Workshop">Iowa Writers’ Workshop</a> der <a href="University_of_Iowa" title="University of Iowa">University of Iowa</a> war er darüber hinaus Direktor eines internationalen Schreibprogramms für <a href="Kreatives_Schreiben" title="Kreatives Schreiben">Kreatives Schreiben</a> an der <a href="Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a>. Als er in den frühen 1970er Jahren in <a href="Montr%C3%A9al" class="mw-redirect" title="Montréal">Montréal</a> lebte, war er neben den Autoren Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf und Ray Smith einer derjenigen Schriftsteller, die zu der gefeierten <i>Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group</i> gehörten.
</p><p>2009 ernannte man ihn zum <a href="Officer_of_the_Order_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of Canada">Officer of the Order of Canada</a> „for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University“.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Seine Werke wurden bisher in fünf Sprachen übersetzt. In Deutsch liegt sein erfolgreiches Sachbuch <i>Die Zähmung der Zeit. Sir <a href="Sandford_Fleming" title="Sandford Fleming">Sandford Fleming</a> und die Erfindung der Weltzeit</i> vor.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werk">Werk</h2></div>
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<ul><li><i>A North American Education</i>. 1973</li>
<li><i>Tribal Justice</i>. 1974</li>
<li><i>Here & Now.</i> (mit John Metcalf) Oberon Press 1977
<ul><li>daraus, Übers. Elfi Schneidenbach: <i>Der Sohn eines Handlungsreisenden.</i> Erzählung, in: <i>Kolumbus und die Riesendame.</i> Aufbau atv, Berlin 1992, S. 148–165.</li></ul></li>
<li><i>South.</i> In: Robert Weaver (Hrsg.): <i>Small wonders. New stories by twelve distinguished Canadian writers.</i> <a href="Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</a>, Toronto 1982, S. 23–30 (zuerst 1981 als Radio-Feature)</li>
<li><i>Resident Alien</i>. 1986</li>
<li><i>Man and His World</i>. 1992</li>
<li><i>Southern Stories</i>. 2000</li>
<li><i>Pittsburgh Stories</i>. 2001</li>
<li><i>Montreal Stories</i>. 2003</li>
<li><i>The Meagre Tarmac</i>. 2011 (Longlist 2011 <a href="Scotiabank-Giller-Preis" class="mw-redirect" title="Scotiabank-Giller-Preis">Scotiabank-Giller-Preis</a> und nominiert für den <a href="Rogers_Writers%E2%80%99_Trust_Fiction_Prize" title="Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize">Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize</a>)</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Romane</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>Lunar Attractions</i>. 1979 (Gewinner des <a href="Amazon.ca_First_Novel_Award" title="Amazon.ca First Novel Award">Amazon.ca First Novel Awards</a>)</li>
<li><i>Lusts</i>. 1984</li>
<li><i>If I Were Me</i>. 1997</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Memoiren</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>Days and Nights in Calcutta</i>. 1977, zusammen mit Bharati Mukherjee</li>
<li><i>I had a Father</i>. 1992.</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Sachbuch</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy</i>. 1987 (zusammen mit Bharati Mukherjee) zum Bombenattentat auf <a href="Air-India-Flug_182" title="Air-India-Flug 182">Air-India-Flug 182</a></li>
<li><i>Time lord. Sir <a href="Sandford_Fleming" title="Sandford Fleming">Sandford Fleming</a> and the creation of standard time</i>. 2000
<ul><li>Übers. Hans Günter Holl: <i>Die Zähmung der Zeit. Sir Sandford Fleming und die Erfindung der Weltzeit</i>. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-10-007109-3.</li></ul></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auszeichnungen">Auszeichnungen</h2></div>
<ul><li>1979: Amazon.ca First Novel Award für <i>Lunar Attractions</i></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/clark-blaise/"><i>Clark Blaise.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_Canadian_Encyclopedia" title="The Canadian Encyclopedia">The Canadian Encyclopedia</a>.</i><span class="Abrufdatum" style="display:none"> Abgerufen im 1. Januar 1</span> (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/clark-blaise/">französisch</a>).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AClark+Blaise&rft.title=Clark+Blaise.&rft.description=Clark+Blaise.&rft.identifier=&rft.date=&rft.language=en"> </span></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469"><i>Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada.</i></a> In: <i>Office of the Secretary to the Governor General.</i> 30. Januar 2012,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2009</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AClark+Blaise&rft.title=Governor+General+Announces+57+New+Appointments+to+the+Order+of+Canada&rft.description=Governor+General+Announces+57+New+Appointments+to+the+Order+of+Canada&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gg.ca%2Fdocument.aspx%3Fid%3D13469&rft.date=2012-01-30"> </span></span>
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