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This paper presents an informative essay on the author Margaret Laurence. .
ESSAY ON AUTHOUR: MARGARET LAURENCE
"A strange place it was, that place where the world began. A place of incredible happenings, splendours and revelations, despairs like multitudinous pits of isolated hells. A place of shadow-spookiness, inhabited by the unknowable dead. A place of jubilation and of mourning, horrible and beautiful.”
- Margaret Laurence. (Where the World Began, Literary Experiences, p.252)
“The name Manawaka is an invented one, but it had been in my mind since I was about seventeen or eighteen, when I first began to think about writing something set in a prairie town.”
- Margaret Laurence. (A Place To Stand On, Literary Experiences, p.67-68)
“In any case, the relationship cured me for life from ever reaching out again to another writer. From then on, I was on my own and that was very good.”
- Nuruddin Farah. (“Laurence 'helped' Somali novelist”, The Daily News.)
Margaret Laurence is one of Canada’fs most beloved, esteemed and respected female writers. She is most important person in Canadian literature. She is the author of sixteen books, including a travel memoir, five novels and two collections of short stories,a translation of Somali tales and poems, a collection of essays and an important study of Nigerian dramatists. Her works were awarded many times. Her name is known as an author, also as a writer who gave chance to young writers. She had a great influence on many authors from various countries, many generations. She is being honoured by people from all over the world as one of person who took a part of actions that helps the world literature to be bettered. .
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, northwest of Winnipeg in 1926. she spent her youth in the prairie town which later become famous as the original place of her fictional town of Manawaka.
“A strange place it was, that place where the world began. A place of incredible happenings, splendours and revelations, despairs like multitudinous pits of isolated hells. A place of shadow-spookiness, inhabited by the unknowable dead. A place of jubilation and of mourning, horrible and beautiful.” - Margaret LaurenceShe describes it on the first paragraph of her essay, Where the World Began. This small, rural town was where she grew up and started her lifework, learned the sight of her own particular eyes. It made who she is. Laurence decided to become a writer when she was little. She contributed to school and collage magazines, graduated from Winnipeg’fs United College in 1947. But she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.
Laurence began writing in earnest while living in Africa from 1950 to 1957. The first two years, she lived in Somalia. She was then married to Jack Laurence; a civil engineer contracted to build 30 water reservoirs throughout the desert country, and then called the British Protectorate of Somaliland. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time. Returning to Canada, Laurence settled in Vancouver where she and her husband remained for five years until Laurence separated from her husband and moved to England in 1962. As a result of her African experience, she wrote her first novel, This Side Jordan in 1960; her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer in 1963; and her memoir in Somalia, The Prophet’s Camel Bel in 1963. She was being honoured by the government as one of the few non-Africans who had written sympathetically about Somalia. At same time, she also began work on her Manawaka series that are widely considered to be among the greatest of Canadian literary achievements.
“The name Manawaka is an invented one, but it had been in my mind since I was about seventeen or eighteen, when I first began to think about writing something set in a prairie town.” - Margaret LaurenceIn one of her essay, A Place To Stand On, she describes about the creation of five books about the fictional town called Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people. As J.R.R. Tolkien created an imagined world called Middle-earth to tell his tales such as “The Lord Of The Rings” authors often creates his/her own world setting to express their idea. Laurence was one of them. Manawaka novels include The Stone Angle (1961) which appear to be one of contemporary literature’fs most stunning image of a woman's fate; A Jest of God (1966), which won a Governor General’fs Award and was made into the feature film“Rachel, Rachel” (1968);The Fire-Dwellers (1969); and The Diviners (1974), which also won a Governor General’fs Award. Laurence returned to Canada for good, eventually making her home in Lakefield, Ontario for thirteen years from 1974. Her best essays have been collected and published as Heart of Stranger in 1976. In addition to these works for adults, Laurence has written a number of children’fs books. One of them,The Olden Days Coat (1979) was made into an award-winning television drama.
The author Margaret Laurence received honorary degrees from more than a dozen Canadian universities. However, she was not famous for just being a gifted Canadian novelist. She found a lot of young who has talent for writing and helped them in many way. One of east Africa's finest fiction writers, Nuruddin Farah from Somalia was struggling to break put of his oral culture and into print when he met Laurence in 1966. He calls Laurence the first real writer he ever met. She was giving advice to him with higher expectations.
“In any case, the relationship cured me for life from ever reaching out again to another writer. From then on, I was on my own and that was very good.” - Nuruddin FarahIt appears on the article “Laurence 'helped' Somali novelist”h from The Daily News. Farah talks about her in multi-layered way. As a result of what Laurence had done to him, he won 1998's $40,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature from the University of Oklahoma with his novelSecret. A Canadian author, Timothy Findley is an another example. Laurence had influence on this former actor who now writes novels, plays, and documentaries. So he wrote an essay Mind Must Be The Firmer to thank for her and her works after Margaret Laurence has been passed away in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. An inspiration of many of her fellow writers, Laurence was made a Companion of the Order Canada in 1971 for her outstanding contributions to Canadian literature.
Margaret Laurence is an internationally renowned author. She is best known for her Manawaka novels which are considered classics of Canadian literature. She has won fame for the novels many times and won honor for her works to help other authors as well. She helped many novelist by writing novels, showing its work, and giving them an advice. She is one of most important, greatest Canadian author in literature history. Margaret Laurence and her works have been appreciated by a number of writer and reader from all over the world.
Works Cited
Daily News. “gLaurence 'Helped' Somali Noelist”. Wednesday, November 18, 1998.
Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel. Toronto: The Canadian Publishers, 1988.
Oster, John E., and Jill Kedersha McClay, and Margaret L. Iveson, eds. Literary Experiences Volume Two – Stories Poems Essays Plays -. Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canadian Inc, 1990.
