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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Allan Safarik
He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and is an editor and was a co-founder of Blackfish Press in British Columbia. Allan Safarik's memoirs in Notes from the Outside: Episodes from an Unconventional Life (Hagios 2006) recall his literary relations with Dorothy Livesay, Milton Acorn, Anne Szumigalski, Joe Rosenblatt, Patrick Friesen and William Hoffer. He won the 2003 John V. Hicks Manuscript Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2005 Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award at the Saskatchewan Book Awards for When Light Falls from the Sun (Hagios 2005). He lives in Dundurn Saskatchewan. |
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Born in
Vancouver on September 27, 1948, Allan Safarik was raised in a
commercial fishing family in
Vancouver Heights in North Burnaby from where he spent much of
his childhood exploring the waterfront. He has a B.A. in English from
Simon Fraser University.