Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9
Peckertracks
Apocrypha: Further Journeys
Notable awards
Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award
Stanley Louis DraglandCM (December 2, 1942 – August 2, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic.[1] A longtime professor of English literature at the University of Western Ontario,[2] he was most noted for his 1994 critical study Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which played a key role in the contemporary reevaluation of the legacy of poet Duncan Campbell Scott in light of his role as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs.[3]
His first novel, Peckertracks, was a shortlisted finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1] He won the Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award in 2005 for his memoir Apocrypha: Further Journeys,[5] and he was a shortlisted finalist for the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award in 2007 for Stormy Weather: Foursomes.[1]
During his academic career he was married to Marnie Parsons, a fellow professor at Western.[6] The couple later separated. After his retirement, Dragland moved to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador,[7] where he continued his writing career and remarried to Beth Follett, the publisher of Pedlar Press.[8]
^"Academic retreats to cottage to focus on writing projects". Waterloo Region Record, July 13, 1996.
^"The province that was a country; A place apart: The abiding power of Newfoundland's fierce spirit of separateness". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 6, 2016.
^"'Spiritual aspects of my life relate to being a renter' Life-long renter: Author and small-press publisher divides her time between Toronto and St. John's". Toronto Star, May 29, 2010.
