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Patricia Kathleen "P. K." Page, (November 23, 1916 – January 14, 2010) was best known as a Canadian poet,〔Peter Scowen, (P.K. Page dies at age 93 ). ''The Globe and Mail'', January 14, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-15.〕 though the citation as she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada reads "poet, novelist, script writer, playwright, essayist, journalist, librettist, teacher and artist."〔Royal Society of Canada president Dr. Patricia Demers at RSC induction ceremony for P.K. Page, Wed 21 Feb 2007, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.〕 She was the author of more than thirty published books that include poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.〔Rosemary Sullivan, "(''The Constant Writer: P.K. Page Remembered ),'' CBC News, Jan. 15, 2010, CBC.ca, Web, Apr 11, 2011.〕 As a visual artist, she exhibited her work as P.K. Irwin at a number of venues in Canada and abroad. Her works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet Earth" was read simultaneously in New York, the Antarctic, and the South Pacific to celebrate the International Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations.〔 ==Life== P.K. Page was born in Swanage, Dorset, England, and moved with her family to Canada in 1919. Page's parents moved her to Red Deer, Alberta in 1919, when she was only 3, and later to Calgary and Winnipeg.〔(P. K. Page biography ), University of Calgary. Retrieved 2010-01-16.〕 Page said her parents were creative, encouraging non-conformists who loved the arts, recited poetry and read to her. She credited her early interest in poetry to the rhythms she unconsciously imbibed as a child.〔Grania Litwin, ("At 87, P.K. Page is moving ahead" ),''Victoria Times Colonist'', 25 May 2004. Retrieved 2010-01-16.〕 A year in England when she was 17 opened her eyes to galleries, ballets and concerts. Page "later moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, where she worked as a shop assistant and radio actress during the late 1930s."〔"(P.K. Page )," eNotes.com, Web, Apr. 11, 2011.〕 In 1941 Page moved to Montreal and came into contact with the Montreal Group of poets, which included A. M. Klein and F. R. Scott. She became a founding member of Patrick Anderson's ''Preview'' magazine in 1942,〔 and of its successor, ''Northern Review,'' in 1945. Some of her poetry appeared in the modernist anthology, ''Unit of Five,'' in 1944, along with poems by Louis Dudek, Ronald Hambleton, Raymond Souster, and James Wreford.〔 In 1944 she published a romantic novel, ''The Sun and the Moon,'' under the pseudonym Judith Cape. (The novel was reprinted in 1973, along with some of her short stories from the 1940s, as ''The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions''.)〔Constance Rooke, "(Page, Patricia Kathleen )," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1602.〕 Later she became a scriptwriter at Canada's National Film Board, where she met W. Arthur Irwin, a former editor of Maclean's magazine, whom she married in 1950.〔 Following her marriage, "Page devoted her time to writing the poetry collection ''The Metal and the Flower'' (1954), for which she received a Governor General's Award."〔 Page travelled with her husband on his diplomatic postings to Australia, Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala. In Brazil and Mexico, not hearing the rhythms of spoken English, she said, "I had a long dry spell, so I started painting and keeping a journal," published as ''Brazilian Journal'' and illustrated with her own paintings.〔 She began writing poetry again following her return to Canada in the mid-1960s.〔 Her visual art, under her married name as P. K. Irwin, is in galleries and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.〔Grania Litwin and Jim Gibson, ("Writer's skill spanned the arts" ), ''Victoria Times Colonist'', 15 January 2010, p. D1. Retrieved 2010-01-15.〕 She remained an active cultural collaborator and wrote steadily throughout the last years of her life in Victoria, British Columbia. 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「P. K. Page」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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