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Patrick Friesen was born on 5 July, 1946 in Steinbach, Manitoba, is a Canadian author (born 1946). Discover Patrick Friesen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 5 July 1946
Birthday 5 July
Birthplace Steinbach, Manitoba
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1946

Patrick Frank Friesen (born 5 July 1946) is a Canadian author born in Steinbach, Manitoba, primarily known for his poetry and stage plays beginning in the 1970s.

Friesen was born into a Mennonite family in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1946.

As a child growing up in Steinbach, he was friends with Shingoose, who later became a well-known musician, and Wayne Tefs, future author and co-founder of Turnstone Press.

After graduating high school at the Steinbach Collegiate Institute, he studied at the University of Manitoba and lived in Winnipeg for thirty years.

In addition to poetry, Friesen has also written songs and collaborated with dancers, choreographers, composers and musicians.

His Mennonite upbringing still influences his writing in work such as "The Shunning", which is about the persecution of a Mennonite farmer questioning his religion.

Friesen won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards for his work on "Blasphemer's Wheel," and was runner up in Milton Acorn's People's Poetry Awards.

1997

In 1997, his work, "A Broken Bowl", was short listed for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry.

2016

Friesen collaborated with Per Brask on the translation from Danish of Ulrikka S. Gernes' Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments, which has been shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Friesen lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is a teacher of creative writing at the University of Victoria.

He is married to poet Eve Joseph.