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Christopher Dewdney (born May 9, 1951) is a Canadian writer and poet.

Hewas born in London, Ontario, and presently lives in Toronto, where he is a professor at York University. Winner of the 2007 Harbourfront Festival Prize, he is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award, Dewdney won first-prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry. In 2005 his book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the World After Dark was nominated for both a Governor General's Award and The Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, and was published in seven countries. In 2008, HarperCollins published his most recent non-fiction title, Soul of The World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time.

Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, and the great-grand-nephew of Edgar Dewdney (Lieutenant-governor: British Columbia 1892—1897, Northwest Territories, 1881—1888).

Christopher Dewdney was also featured in the film Poetry in Motion.

Bibliography

• A Palaeozoic Geology of London, Ontario - , Coach House Press, 1974
• Fovea Centralis - Coach House Press, 1975
• Alter Sublime - Coach House Press, 1980
• Predators of the Adoration - McClelland and Stewart, 1983 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Immaculate Perception - Anansi, 1985 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Permugenisis - Nightwood Editions, 1987
• The Radiant Inventory - McClelland and Stewart, 1988 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Concordat Proviso Ascendant (A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, book 3) - The Figures, Mass, 1991
• The Secular Grail - Somerville House, 1993
• Demon Pond - McClelland and Stewart, 1994
• Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era - HarperCollins Canada, 1998 ,ISBN 0-00-638472-2
• Signal Fires ( including A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, books 3 and 4) - McClelland and Stewart, 2000
• The Natural History - ECW, 2002
• Acquainted With the Night - HarperCollins Canada, Bloomsbury New York, Bloomsbury London, 2004 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) (nominated for a 2005 Charles Taylor Prize) ISBN 1-58234-396-9 (hardcover) ISBN 0-00-639164-8(paperback)
• Children of the Outer Dark - Wilfrid Laurier, 2007
• Soul of the World; Unlocking the Secrets of Time - HarperCollins, 2008 ISBN 978-1-55468-002-3 (hardcover)

References

External links

• Christopher Dewdney's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia