University in Winnipeg, Manitoba — Canada’s Prairie Region (North America)
Carol Ann Shields (née Warner)
B.A., M.A., O.C., O.M., D.Litt.
— (1935-2003) —
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 17, 2022
1. Carol Ann Shields Marker
Carol Shields was a Professor of English at the University of Manitoba from 1982 until 2000. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, she moved to Canada in 1957. Her novels, plays, and poetry won major awards globally including the Governor General's Award for Literature in Canada. She wrote about the inner lives of women and men, marriage, work, and goodness which attracted millions of readers worldwide.
Artist
Erin Senko
Sculpture sponsored by
Generous Donors to the University of Manitoba
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Women. A significant historical year for this entry is 1982.
Location. 49° 48.609′ N, 97° 7.987′ W. Marker is in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is in University. Marker can be reached from Chancellors Circle, 0.2 kilometers north of Dafoe Road West. Marker is located in Innovation Plaza, just north of the University of Manitoba Administration Building. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 66 Chancellors Circle, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2, Canada. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 10 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Dr. Baldur Rosmund Stefansson (here, next to this marker); Dr. H. Bruce Chown (here, next to this marker); Dr. John Maxwell Bowman (here, next to this
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More about this marker. Innovation Plaza was established in 2013 to celebrate and honor University of Manitoba academic staff who have demonstrated sustained excellence and global impact and influence through a body of research, scholarly works or creative activities with a series of commemorative busts.
Also see . . .
1. Carol Shields.
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. Shields' third novel, Happenstance, was published in 1980; that year, she and her husband settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after he was hired to teach in the University(Submitted on April 4, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)of Manitoba's Faculty of Engineering. It was here that Shields wrote her better-known books. From the fall of 1982 onward, Shields taught in the English Department at the University of Manitoba. Shields was made Full Professor of English in 1995, and, in 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 17, 20222. Carol Ann Shields SculptureArtist: Erin Senko
2. The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World.
When Carol Shields died of breast cancer in 2003, her obituary in The New York Times remembered her as a novelist whose work highlighted the “profundity of the mundane,” while The Guardian mentioned her “commitment to commemorating otherwise ordinary lives.” Shields specialized in fiction devoted to women characters and their experience. Her first novel, “Small Ceremonies,” was published in 1976, when she was in her early 40s. She went on to publish nine more novels, five story collections, three poetry collections, several plays and a biography of Jane Austen.(Submitted on April 4, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 17, 2022
3. Carol Ann Shields Memorial
Credits. This page was last revised on April 4, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 3, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 58 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on April 4, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
