Sarah Klassen (born 6 October 1932) is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [1] [2] Klassen's first volume of poetry, Journey to Yalta, was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry [3] and Klassen's novel, The Wittenbergs, was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Award for popular history. [4]
Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there. [1] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Winnipeg. Sarah Klassen taught English in the public school system in Winnipeg, and at summer institutes in Lithuania and Ukraine. [1] Klassen has been recognized as part of a flourishing of Mennonite novelists and poets emerging in the 1980s. [5] A subject of Klassen's writing (in Journey to Yalta, The Wittenbergs and The Russian Daughter) is the experiences and locations of Russian Mennonite settlements in the early part of the twentieth century, a topic relayed to her in stories by her own mother. [1] [6]
Sarah Klassen has served as poetry editor for Prairie Fire and editor of Sophia magazine. [7]
Di Brandt often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
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Johann Peter Klassen (1868–1947) was a Russian Mennonite poet and writer who emigrated to Canada in 1923 but wrote primarily in the German language. He was born 27 May 1868 in Neu-Schönwiese near Alexandrovsk (Zaporizhia) Ukraine, the third of four children of Peter Abram Klassen and Aganetha (Schultz) Klassen. His father had four children from his first marriage to Anna Janzen (1828-1863).
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