1. Dorothy Livesay graduated with a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Social Work in 1934.
11 Facts About Dorothy Livesay
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Dorothy Livesay studied at the University of British Columbia and the Sorbonne.
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Dorothy Livesay joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1933, and was active in a number of its front organizations: the Canadian Labour Defence League, the Canadian League Against War and Fascism, Friends of the Soviet Union, and the Workers' Unity League.
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Dorothy Livesay moved to Vancouver in 1935, and married Duncan Macnair, a fellow socialist, in 1937.
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Alan Crawley agreed to edit the magazine, and the first issue of Contemporary Verse appeared in September 1941, After Macnair died in 1959, Dorothy Livesay worked for UNESCO in Paris, and then in Northern Rhodesia as a field worker from 1960 to 1963.
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In 1975 Dorothy Livesay founded the journal Contemporary Verse 2.
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Dorothy Livesay published her first short story, "Heat", in the Canadian Mercury at the same age.
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Dorothy Livesay won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top poetry honour, twice: in 1944 for Day and Night, and in 1947 for Poems for People.
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Dorothy Livesay won the Queen's Canada Medal in 1977, and the Persons Case Award for the Status of Women in 1984.
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Dorothy Livesay was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1992.
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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize is a category of the BC Book Prizes that is awarded to authors of the best work of poetry in a given year, where those authors are British Columbia or Yukon residents, or have been for three of the last five years.