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About George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is a pioneering scholar of African Canadian literature and the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto USA having previously held posts at Duke University and McGill University USA. He is the author of 12 volumes of poetry including Blue Black Red and Execution Poems which won the Governor Generals Award for Poetry in 2001.He is currently the Poet Laureate of Toronto and the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Harvard University USA. His many honours include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award and an appointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer among others. He lives in Toronto USA.