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George Bowering (George Harry Bowering) was born on 1 December, 1935 in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian writer (born 1935). Discover George Bowering'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 88 years old?

Popular As George Harry Bowering
Occupation Novelist, poet, historian, biographer
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1935
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1935

George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer.

He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher.

Bowering is author of more than 100 books.

1960

Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Lionel Kearns, Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s.

There they founded the journal TISH.

In the late 1960s Bowering's work was published in 0 to 9 magazine, an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.

Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years.

Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic.

2002

In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

2004

He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2004.

When the Indian Hungryalist, also known as Hungry generation, poet Malay Roy Choudhury, was arrested at Kolkata, India, Bowering brought out a special issue of Imago for helping the Indian poet in his trial.

2008

Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.