Dr. Sandra Djwa
Fellow
Current Employer
Simon Fraser University
Election Year
1994
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
Literature
Keywords
Canadian literature, Canadian culture, biography, Canadian poetry, intellectual history
Sandra Djwa has been an important contributor to, and pioneering developer of, the study of Canadian poetry, literary history, and biography.
As an editor of primary texts she has made the work of several important Canadians poets such as F.R. Scott, E.J. Pratt, Carl Klinck, and P.K. Page, available in impeccable scholarly editions.
As the biographer of F.R. Scott, she has shaped the story not only of a leading Canadian poet, political thinker, and lawyer but also of the country.
Her biography of Roy Daniells, Professing English, is also charts the study of English as a discipline and the emergence of Canadian Literature as a field of study. It received the Lorne Pierce Award.
She has written many seminal, often reprinted, critical articles. The author of ten books, she received the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction "Journey with No Maps: A Biography of P.K. Page” (2013). She was awarded the Canada Prize in the Humanities (2014).
Honorary Degrees: a D.Litt from Memorial University (2002) and D.Lett McGill University (2016) . She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.
As an editor of primary texts she has made the work of several important Canadians poets such as F.R. Scott, E.J. Pratt, Carl Klinck, and P.K. Page, available in impeccable scholarly editions.
As the biographer of F.R. Scott, she has shaped the story not only of a leading Canadian poet, political thinker, and lawyer but also of the country.
Her biography of Roy Daniells, Professing English, is also charts the study of English as a discipline and the emergence of Canadian Literature as a field of study. It received the Lorne Pierce Award.
She has written many seminal, often reprinted, critical articles. The author of ten books, she received the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction "Journey with No Maps: A Biography of P.K. Page” (2013). She was awarded the Canada Prize in the Humanities (2014).
Honorary Degrees: a D.Litt from Memorial University (2002) and D.Lett McGill University (2016) . She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.