Patrick
Lane
Patrick Lane was the author of 25 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He received numerous awards for his writing, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and three National Magazine Awards. He was a two-time Writers’ Trust award finalist having been nominated for the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2004 for his memoir, There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden, and for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2008 for his first novel Red Dog, Red Dog. Born in Nelson, British Columbia, in 1939, Lane lived near Victoria with his wife, poet Lorna Crozier. He died in 2019 at the age of 79.
Award History
2004 Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfictionfor There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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