Heather Spears is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, novelist, and artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 living in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. Educated at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

 and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated to Denmark in 1962 where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...

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In 1989 her collection The Word for Sand won both the Governor-General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award

Pat Lowther Award

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...

. Spears won her first Pat Lowther Award in 1987 for How to Read Faces and her third in 2002 for Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000

Poetry

• Asylum Poems (1958)
• The Danish Portraits ((1967)
• From the Inside (1972)
• How to Read Faces ( 1986)
• The Word for Sand (1989)
• Human Acts (1991)
• The Panum Poems(1996)
• Selected and New Poems (1998)

Fiction

• Moonfall (1991)
• The Children of Atwar (1993)
• The Taming (1996)
• The Flourish (2004)

Other works

• Drawings from the Newborn, Ben-Simon (1986)
• Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000 (2000)
• Drawn from the Fire, Children of the Intifada (1989)
• Massacre, Drawings from Jerusalem (1990)
• Line by Line (2002)

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