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Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist.〔"(Gwendolyn MacEwen )," NNDB.com Web, 24 April 2011.〕 A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer,"〔 she published more than 20 books in her life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonderment at life and death, makes her writing unique.... She's still regarded by most as one of the best Canadian poets."〔 == Life == MacEwen was born in Toronto, Ontario.〔("Gwendolyn MacEwen: Biography )", Canadian Poetry Online, Web, 23 April 2011.〕〔 Her mother, Elsie, spent much of her life as a patient in mental health institutions. Her father, Alick, suffered from alcoholism.〔"(Gwendolyn MacEwen: Comments by Writers and Critics )," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, 24 April 2011.〕 Gwendolyn MacEwen grew up in the High Park area of the city, and attended Western Technical-Commercial School.〔 Her first poem was published in ''The Canadian Forum'' when she was only 17, and she left school at 18 to pursue a writing career.〔http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/macewen/index.htm〕 By 18 she had written her first novel, ''Julian the Magician.''〔John Oughton, "(Gwendolyn MacEwen )," Young Soul Rebels, YoungPoets.ca, Web, 24 April 2011.〕 "She was small (5'4") and slight, with a round pale face, huge blue eyes usually rimmed in kohl (Egyptian eye shadow), and long dark straight hair."〔 Her first book of poetry, ''The Drunken Clock'', was published in 1961 in Toronto,.〔 then the centre of a literary revival in Canada, encouraged by the editor Robert Weaver and influential teacher Northrop Frye. MacEwen was thus in touch with James Reaney, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, etc. She married poet Milton Acorn, 19 years her senior, in 1962,〔 although they divorced two years later. She published over twenty books, in a variety of genres. She also wrote numerous radio docudramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), including a "much-admired radio drama", ''Terror and Erebus'', in 1965.〔 With her second husband, Greek musician Niko Tsingos, MacEwen opened a Toronto coffeehouse, The Trojan Horse, in 1972. She and Tsingos translated some of the poetry of contemporary Greek writer Yiannis Ritsos (published in her 1981 book ''Trojan Women'').〔George Woodcock & Rosemary Sullivan, " (Gwendolyn MacEwen Biography )," ''Encyclopedia of Literature'', 8264, JRank.org, Web, 24 April 2011.〕 She taught herself to read Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and French, and translated writers from each of those languages.〔 In 1978 her translation of Euripides' drama ''The Trojan Women'' was first performed in Toronto.〔Michaela Milde, (Review of Euripides' ''Trojan Women'' ), Didaskalia I:1, Web, 22 April 2011.〕 She served as writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1985, and the University of Toronto in 1986 and 1987.〔 MacEwen died in 1987,〔 at the age of 46, of health problems related to alcoholism.〔http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/macewen/comments.htm U of T Canadian Poetry (comments)〕 She is buried in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.〔"Our Poets at Rest: Gwendolyn MacEwen," ''Arc'', 15 Nov. 2010, Web, 22 April 2011.〕 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「Gwendolyn MacEwen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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