Dorothy Livesay

Dorothy Livesay
BornDorothy Kathleen May Livesay
(1909-10-12)October 12, 1909
Winnipeg, Manitoba
DiedDecember 29, 1996(1996-12-29) (aged 87)
Victoria, British Columbia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanada Canadian
Alma materTrinity College, Toronto
GenrePoetry
Notable worksCollected Poems: The Two Seasons
Notable awardsOrder of Canada
Order of British Columbia
Governor General's Award, Lorne Pierce Medal, FRSC
SpouseDuncan Macnair
ChildrenPeter, Marcia

Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC OBC FRSC (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.[1]

  1. ^ Mathews, R.D.. "Dorothy Livesay". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dorothy-livesay . Accessed 15 May 2020.