BIOGRAPHY
BARRY CALLAGHAN, the well-known novelist, poet, and man of letters, is included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages.
His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still A Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters. He has published translations of French, Serbian, and Latvian poetry, and has been writer-in-residence at the universities of Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Mexico City.
He was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 70s, and at the same time began the internationally celebrated quarterly and press, EXILE. For thirty-eight years, he was a professor of contemporary literature at York University in Toronto, and is now Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar at that institution.
Callaghan has been awarded the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters award for fiction, the City of Toronto Award, seven National Magazine Awards, two President’s Medal Awards for Excellence (NMA), the ACTRA Award for television host of the year, the Pushcart, White, and Lowell Thomas Awards in the U.S., and the inaugural W. O. Mitchell Award for a body of work. Callaghan has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Guelph.
WITH MAZIE ON WALMER RD., 1948
AT AGE 17, 1954
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE, WINDSOR, 1957
CBC STUDIO, “WEEKEND”, 1968
WITH CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS, VENICE, 1986
WITH NO NAME JIVE AND C-JAM BLUES IN THE BACKYARD OF 69 SULLIVAN ST. ON LEARNING HE HAD BEEN GIVEN THE TORONTO ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE, 1990
MORLEY CALLAGHAN AND BARRY CALLAGHAN ON THE FRONT STEPS OF 20 DALE AVE., 1987
BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
