Barbara Klar

Barbara Klar
Born	1966 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation	poet
Period	1990s-present
Notable works	The Night You Called Me a Shadow

Barbara Klar (born 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for her poetry collection The Night You Called Me a Shadow. ^[1]

After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan. ^[1] She published poetry in literary magazines such as Grain , Border Crossings and Prairie Fire before The Night You Called Me a Shadow was published in 1993. ^[1] The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award. ^[2]

She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, The Blue Field (1999), ^[1] Tower Road (2004) ^[3] and Cypress (2008). ^[4] Both The Blue Field and Cypress were shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award. ^[2] She won a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council in 2004.

References

1. Heather Hodgson, Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. ISBN   0-88977-163-4. p. 127.
2. David Carpenter, The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 ~ Progressions. Coteau Books, 2014. ISBN   9781550505689. pp. 204-209.
3. "Each book unique piece of art". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , December 4, 2004.
4. Cynthia Sugars, The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN   9780199941872. p. 741.