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Colleen Thibaudeau was born on 29 December, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian poet and short story-writer. Discover Colleen Thibaudeau's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Short-story writer Poet
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 29 December, 1925
Birthday 29 December
Birthplace Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death 6 February, 2012
Died Place London, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1925

Colleen Thibaudeau (December 29, 1925 – February 6, 2012) was a Canadian poet and short-story writer.

Thibaudeau was born on December 29, 1925, in Toronto.

Ontario.

She was the daughter of the high school teacher and writer of Acadian descent John Stewart Thibaudeau and his wife, Alice ( Pryce) Thibaudeau, the Belfast-born war bride.

Thibaudeau had one brother and a younger sister.

She was raised in St. Thomas, Ontario and wrote poems during her schooling days that were published in the magazines Here and Now, Northern Review and Undergrad.

1948

Thibaudeau completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with the option for French at the University of Toronto in 1948, and completed a Master's Thesis in contemporary Canadian poetry to obtain a Master's degree from the same educational institution in 1949.

She had been influenced by the poet Margaret Avison during her time at the University.

1949

From 1949 to 1950, she worked in advertising, promotion and publicity at McClelland & Stewart.

1950

A graduate of the University of Toronto, she began writing poetry for a number of magazines under the pseudonym M. Morris in the 1950s to the 1960s before going to publish eight books during the 1960s to the 1990s.

Thibaudeau went on to work as a teacher of English conservation at Lycee Joachim du Bellay, in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France between 1950 and 1951.

1951

She returned to Toronto in late 1951, where she worked on the 1951 Canadian Census and for the Canadian Post Office during the Christmas period.

Around this time, Thibaudeau began writing poetry for a number of magazines such as blewointment, Branching Out, Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead and Niagara Review under the pseudonym M. Morris, which she used between 1951 and 1962 because she believed her name was becoming a familiar one to editors.

She married the poet and professor James Reaney on December 29, 1951.

1965

Her first book, Lozenges: Poems in the Shapes of Things, was published in 1965.

1971

In 1971, she authored Colleen Thibaudeau: Poems and Air Three followed by Ten Letters in 1975.

1975

Thibaudeau's collection work, Ten Letters, followed in 1975, with My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair coming in 1977.

1979

The literary magazine Brick featured and critically praised her work in its 1979 winter issue.

1982

In 1982 and 1983, Thibaudeau's work was featured in the anthologies Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry; The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse and Undozen. This was followed by The Martha Landscapes about change, creativity and time inspired by in 1984, a collection of new and selected poems called The Artemesia Book in 1991 and a set of lyrical poems about a boat called The Patricia in the 1992 book The "Patricia" Album and other Poems.

She was a member of the League of Canadian Poets.

Thibaudeau was a registered member of the New Democratic Party and of the United Church of Canada.

2012

They had three children, one of whom died from a sudden meningitis attack in 1966. Thibaudeau died at University Hospital in London, Ontario on February 6, 2012, following a series of strokes in the preceding months.

On February 11, a funeral service was held for her at the James A. Harris funeral parlour.

According to Colin Boyd in Thibaudeau's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia, the poet "celebrates the extraordinary nature of ordinary life by combining the everyday with the otherworldly."

Marnie Parsons in the book Touch Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-century Poetry noted Thibaudeau did not write in "standard English" but made "words that are phonetically possible in English by bringing together phonemes utilizing the standard sound conjunctions of the language."

Molly Peacock, the series editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English, called her the "secret national treasure" of Canada, adding "You could say she was our Carol Shields of poetry, though of course she started before Shields, taking the ideas for her poems from dropped threads of domesticity and exalting them with her casual but timeless lines."

In 2012, the Colleen Thibaudeau Outstanding Contribution Award was established by the League of Canadian Poets to recognize a "substantial volunteer project or series of projects that significantly nurture and support poets and poetry across Canada."

2013

The League of Canadian Poets established an literary award in Thibaudeau's name and a play set to music based on her words was staged in London, Ontario in March 2013.

A play set to music based on Thibaudeau's words called Collenning was held at London, Ontario's Arts Project Theatre in March 2013.