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Books by Richard Sanger:
Not Spain
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Richard Sanger
Richard Sanger was born in
Manchester, England. He grew up in Kenya, Connecticut, Toronto and,
mainly, Ottawa. After 10 years spent teaching English and studying in
Europe, he moved back to Toronto.
His poems have appeared in
publications in Canada, Britain and the United States, including the
Times Literary Supplement, South-West Review,
Poetry Review, Quarry, Descant, Queen’s Quarterly,
The Globe and Mail and The Signal Anthology of Contemporary Canadian
Poetry. He has won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize twice (in 1992 and
1993). In 1994, a chapbook of his poems was published by Tapir Press;
in 1996, Vehicule Press published his first full-length collection,
Shadow Cabinet, nominated that year for the Gerald Lampert Award.
His play Not Spain was
shortlisted for a 1995 Chalmers Award and was published by Playwrights
Canada Press in 1998. Another play, Two Words for Snow, premiered
at the 1999 PlayRites Festival in Calgary and was published by Red Deer
Press in 2005. His other plays include Wild Grapes and Unrequited
Pine and have been performed at various fringe festivals.
His reviews and essays have
appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Globe and Mail,
Books-in-Canada, The Canadian Forum and Poetry Review
(U.K.) as well as various scholarly journals. He holds an MA in Spanish
and a doctorate in Comparative Literature and has taught in the English
Department and the School of Continuing Studies at the University of
Toronto; he has also worked as a translator (from Spanish, French and
German) and an editor.
In 1998–1999, he was the
Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and their son.
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