biography
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MacLennan, (John) Hugh
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| lived:
| (1907–90)
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| biography:
| Novelist and essayist, born in Nova Scotia, SE Canada. He studied at Dalhousie, Oxford, and Princeton universities, then taught at McGill (1967–79). A highly esteemed writer, he was the first major English-speaking novelist to attempt to portray Canada's national character and regional relationships. He won the Governor-General's Award three times for fiction - Two Solitudes (1945), The Precipice (1948), and The Watch that Ends the Night (1959) - and twice for non-fiction, with Cross Country and Thirty and Three. |
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