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Keith Maillard Honoured in West Virginia
CALGARY - December 28, 2004.
Vancouver author Keith Maillard was inducted into the Wheeling,West Virginia, Hall of Fame on November 28, 2004. Peter Holloway, chair of the Wheeling Hall of Fame Board's Music & Fine Arts Committee, said, "By setting his fictional characters in the real local neighborhoods such as Wheeling Island, South Wheeling and Woodsdale, he celebrates our unique town and shares it with a worldwide audience.";
On acceptance of the award at the WesBanco Civic Center, Maillard said, "There is a magical quality about the first place you know. It is poignant, intense, compelling, and unforgettable.The first time I was aware of seeing anything as beautiful was when, at four or five, I looked out the sun porch window at the Ohio River. It has been forty years since I lived in Wheeling, but there is
something about the place that has kept me coming back here, not often enough in the flesh but quite often in the spirit.";
Following the Hall of Fame ceremony, Maillard participated on November 30 in the presentation of the new West Virginia Literary Map at Fairmont State College. Earlier in the month, Maillard was presented with the West Virginia Library Association Literary Merit Award. Maillard returned from his two-week, seven-town West Virginia tour on December 10 "feeling more refreshed and focused on my writing than ever. All the threads are coming together for me."; He is currently completing a four-volume novel chronicling the 1960s entitled Difficulty at the Beginning, to be published by Brindle & Glass in September 2005. His upcoming memoir, He was a Good Dancer, will be published by Thomas Allen & Son.
Keith Maillard was born and raised in Wheeling,WV. He emigrated to Canada in 1970 and became a Canadian citizen in 1976. He is the author of nine novels and one book of poetry. His novel Motet, which was set in Vancouver, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the 1989 BC Book Awards; Hazard Zones was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Dementia Americana won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry; and Gloria was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Maillard lives in West Vancouver with his wife and two daughters and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
-- Brindle & Glass
Vancouver author Keith Maillard was inducted into the Wheeling,West Virginia, Hall of Fame on November 28, 2004. Peter Holloway, chair of the Wheeling Hall of Fame Board's Music & Fine Arts Committee, said, "By setting his fictional characters in the real local neighborhoods such as Wheeling Island, South Wheeling and Woodsdale, he celebrates our unique town and shares it with a worldwide audience.";
On acceptance of the award at the WesBanco Civic Center, Maillard said, "There is a magical quality about the first place you know. It is poignant, intense, compelling, and unforgettable.The first time I was aware of seeing anything as beautiful was when, at four or five, I looked out the sun porch window at the Ohio River. It has been forty years since I lived in Wheeling, but there is
something about the place that has kept me coming back here, not often enough in the flesh but quite often in the spirit.";
Following the Hall of Fame ceremony, Maillard participated on November 30 in the presentation of the new West Virginia Literary Map at Fairmont State College. Earlier in the month, Maillard was presented with the West Virginia Library Association Literary Merit Award. Maillard returned from his two-week, seven-town West Virginia tour on December 10 "feeling more refreshed and focused on my writing than ever. All the threads are coming together for me."; He is currently completing a four-volume novel chronicling the 1960s entitled Difficulty at the Beginning, to be published by Brindle & Glass in September 2005. His upcoming memoir, He was a Good Dancer, will be published by Thomas Allen & Son.
Keith Maillard was born and raised in Wheeling,WV. He emigrated to Canada in 1970 and became a Canadian citizen in 1976. He is the author of nine novels and one book of poetry. His novel Motet, which was set in Vancouver, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the 1989 BC Book Awards; Hazard Zones was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Dementia Americana won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry; and Gloria was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Maillard lives in West Vancouver with his wife and two daughters and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
-- Brindle & Glass
Submitted on December 29, 2004 in By David.
