P.K.
Page
P. K. Page was born in England in 1916 and moved to Canada at the age of three. Raised in the prairies she first came to the attention of readers in the 1940s through her regular appearances in Preview, a Montreal-based literary magazine. Her collection The Metal and the Flower won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1954. Twice shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, Page received the BC Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2004. A new collection of her work, Kaleidoscope, was published in 2010 and was the first in a series of volumes over the next ten years intended to complement a scholarly project that will collect all of the poet’s work online. Page was a visual artist (under the name P. K. Irwin) and her work is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada. Page died on January 14, 2010.
Program History
1999 Lecturer
Margaret Laurence Lecture Series- 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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