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Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1 August 1959) is a Canadian poet, educator, publisher and editor.〔http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2008/05/12-or-20-questions-with-carolyn-marie.html〕 ==Biography== Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at McGill University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (1981) and a diploma in Education (1983), and at Concordia University, where she earned a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (1995). Her first poetry collection, ''Swimming into the Light'', won the David McKeen Award for Poetry in 1996. Her books have been nominated for a number of literary awards in Canada including the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award. Souaid’s work focuses on pivotal moments in Québécois history〔http://aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=15&article=463&cat=3〕 and on the difficult bridging of worlds (English/French; native/non-native).〔http://www.cbc.ca/octobercrisis/2010/10/the-kidnapping.html〕 In 2010, she and longtime poetic collaborator Endre Farkas produced ''Blood is Blood'', a controversial video-poem dealing with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.〔http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=7cbc6c2d-b46d-42c9-8176-638fff178081〕 Well known for her activism on the Montreal literary scene,〔http://www.qwf.org/qwrite/pdf/may2010_qwrite.pdf〕〔http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/381〕〔http://www.raev.ca/sites/raev.ca/publicpages/index/home/page:26/sort:lastName/direction:asc〕 Souaid co-produced Poetry in Motion in 2004 (which brought poems to Montreal buses〔Anne Sutherland. Words of a Somali Poet on Montreal Buses: The Gazette. April 23, 2004〕) and Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret showcasing the “theatre” of poetry.〔http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/122106/yir_spokenword.html〕 In 2009, she co-founded Poetry Quebec, an online review dedicated to the English language poetry and poets of Quebec.〔http://pre2010.thelinknewspaper.ca/articles/1505〕 From 2008 to 2011, she served as poetry editor for Signature Editions, one of Canada’s top publishers of poetry.〔http://signature-editions.com/index.php/about〕 Souaid has lived most of her life in Montreal, except for three years spent teaching in Inuit villages along Quebec’s Hudson-Ungava coast in the early 1980s.〔Souaid, C.1988. Inuit-controlled School System Clashes With Traditional Lifestyle. Information North: Newsletter of The Arctic Institute of North America 14:1-4.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolyn Marie Souaid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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