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1973-2006 (Creation)
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2.52 m of textual records 1 broadside
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Carol Malyon is a Canadian author and poet born in Toronto in 1933. She was educated at the University of Toronto where she completed her BScN. Malyon has worked as a nurse, in health research, and was the owner of the Beaches Book Shop during the 1980s. She is now a full-time author of novels, short stories, poetry and fiction for young children. She spent the fall of 1997 as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick. Malyon was shortlisted for the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, for "If I knew I'd tell you", as well as the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Best First Book of Fiction (Canada & Caribbean), for "The edge of the world." Her work has also appeared in various anthologies including "Vivid : stories by five women," "91 : best Canadian stories," "Vintage 91" and "Porcupine's Quill reader."
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The fonds consists of notes, drafts and research material related to the publications "The edge of the world," "Emma's dead," "Headstand," "If I knew I'd tell you," "Lovers and other strangers," "Mixed-up grandmas," "The adultery handbook," "Colville's People" and "Cathedral Women." It also includes personal and professional correspondence, clippings of stories about Malyon and/or reviews of her work, lecture notes, grant applications, writer-in-residence application as well as other material that documents her career as a writer.
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Donated by Carol Malyon in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2006.
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archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/submissions/fonds/ON00370-f0000454.htm
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The fonds comprises the following accessions: 1994-032, 1997-014, 1999-058, 2003-008, 2004-031 and 2006-041. Further accruals are expected.
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- North America » Canada » Ontario » Toronto