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Edna Alford (born 19 November 1947 in Turtleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author and editor. As a writer she is known for the collections ''A Sleep Full of Dreams'' and ''The Garden of Eloise Loon''. She has also won the Marian Engel Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. As an editor she co-founded the magazine ''Dandelion'' and edited fiction for ''Grain'' from 1985–1990. 〔(Banff Centre )〕 Edna was born to George and Edith Sample and was the second eldest of the children aside from brother Stanley. She also has brothers Lorne (deased) and Gregory as well as a younger sister Beth. Edna is currently married to internationally known theoretical mathematician Richard Cushman. ==Short fiction== Alford's first short story collection, ''A Sleep Full of Dreams'', looks at the lives of residents and workers in Pine Mountain Lodge. Jeremy LaLonde describes Alford's collection as a narrative of community.〔(Article in ''Studies in Canadian Literature'' )〕 "On a thematic level, what distinguishes ''A Sleep Full of Dreams'' from other narratives of community is that the community it portrays (a retirement home) has rarely been depicted in a sustained way or with such stark realism," LaLonde writes.〔(Article in ''Studies in Canadian Literature'' )〕 He also calls the collection "exemplary in its use of imagistic links."〔(Article in ''Studies in Canadian Literature'' )〕 Reviewer M.G. Osachoff noted that through the collection, Alford shows readers "that there is beauty and dignity in growing old. Avoiding sentimentality, she gives us all the unsavory details aboutold age, and yet makes us care about the old women who are Aria's (sic) patients." 〔(Book Review in ''Canadian Literature'' )〕 Alford's second collection, ''The Garden of Eloise Loon,'' deals with mental illness and apocalyptic themes. Most of the stories are set in rural Saskatchewan, and many of them in the Turtle Lake area. David Carpenter writes that Alford "usurps the quaint moderation that has been accorded to Saskatchewan by those who don't understand its hazardous otherness. The occupation of disaster, the story of loss, pain, and indignity, recites a quinitessentially Saskatchewan moment of hesitation inlaid with the exaggerated tales the province incites." "〔(Excerpt from ''The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 Progressions'' )〕 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「Edna Alford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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