Kent Stetson
Kent Stetson CM | |
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Born | (1948-07-05) July 5, 1948 (age 75) Marshfield, Prince Edward Island |
Occupation | playwright, novelist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1980s-present |
Notable works | Warm Wind in China, As I Am, The Harps of God |
Kent Stetson, CM (born July 5, 1948) is a Canadian playwright and novelist.[1]
Stetson is best known for the plays Warm Wind in China (1988), one of the first and most prominent AIDS-themed plays produced in Canada;[1] As I Am (1986), a noted gay-themed work;[1] and the Governor General's Award-winning The Harps of God (1997).[1] His other plays include Queen of the Cadillac (1990), Just Plain Murder (1992), Sweet Magdalena (1994), The Eyes of the Gull (2000), New Arcadia (2001) and Horse High, Bull Strong, Pig Tight (2004).[1] He has also published two novels, The World Above the Sky (2010) and Meat Cove (2013).
The Harps of God received the 2001 Governor General's Literary Award[2] for English language drama, and the 2001 Canadian Authors Association's inaugural Carol Bolt Award.[1] He won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition for New Arcadia,[1] the Prince Edward Island Literary Award for outstanding contributions to the literature of Prince Edward Island, and the Wendell Boyle Award for contributions to PEI heritage.
Stetson was appointed to the Order of Canada in July 2007.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Kent Stetson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2018-02-22.
- ^ a b "Get this man's plays on stage!". Montreal Gazette. July 21, 2007. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
External links
- Official website
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- Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations (1981)
- John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982)
- Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land (1983)
- Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog (1984)
- George F. Walker, Criminals in Love (1985)
- Sharon Pollock, Doc (1986)
- John Krizanc, Prague (1987)
- George F. Walker, Nothing Sacred (1988)
- Judith Thompson, The Other Side of the Dark (1989)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990)
- Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
- John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992)
- Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993)
- Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth (1994)
- Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
- Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996)
- Ian Ross, fareWel (1997)
- Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1998)
- Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy (1999)
- Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex (2000)
- Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001)
- Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002)
- Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift (2003)
- Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
- John Mighton, Half Life (2005)
- Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006)
- Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007)
- Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008)
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
- Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010)
- Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011)
- Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
- Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
- Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
- David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
- Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl (2016)
- Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017)
- Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
- Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
- Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story (2020)
- Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021)
- Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (2022)
- Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (2023)
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