Ширинян Лорн

Shirinian Lorne

Ширинян Лорен

Lorne Shirinian

Lorne Shirinian was born in Toronto. He received an Honours BA in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, an MA in Comparative Literature from Carleton University, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from l'Université de Montréal. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston. Lorne Shirinian's writing explores the lives of individuals who have come to Canada after catastrophes such as genocide, exile and dispersion and who find themselves in a crisis of identity, alienation, acculturation, and assimilation. In 1972 he founded and edited Manna, a review of contemporary poetry in Toronto, which published many of the major Canadian poets in the early 1970s.

PUBLICATIONS

Drama EXILE IN THE CRADLE (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2003)

THIS DARK THING: TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2004)

Poetry MANUSCRIPT: TOM STURGES (Toronto: Abbey Publishers, 1971)

ARMENIAN-NORTH AMERICAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Manna Publishing, 1974)

POEMS OF DISPERSION AND OTHER RITES OF MOVEMENT (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Manna Publishing, 1977)

EARTHQUAKE (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990)

ROUGH LANDING (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2000)

Fiction THE KEY AND OTHER STORIES (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Manna Publishing, 1977)

BEGINNINGS AND ENDS (Toronto: Zoryan Institute, 1991)

HISTORY OF ARMENIA AND OTHER FICTION (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 1999)

MEMORY'S ORPHANS (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2002)

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS UPON US (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2005)

Literary & Cultural Criticism ARMENIAN-NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE, A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION: GENOCIDE, DIASPORA AND SYMBOLS (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990)

THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AND THE RETHINKING OF THE DIASPORA IN LITERATURE (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)

THE IMPACT OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: EIGHTY-THREE YEARS OF SURVIVAL AND MEMORY IN THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA (Toronto: University of Toronto, the Harney Lectures, 1999)

SURVISOR MEMOIRS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (Reading, England: Taderon Press, 2000)

QUEST FOR CLOSURE: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE IN CANADA (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2000)

WRITING MEMORY: THE SEARCH FOR HOME IN ARMENIAN DIASPORA LITERATURE AS CULTURAL PRACTICE (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2001)

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: RESISTING THE INERTIA OF INDIFFERENCE (co-written with Alan Whitehorn) (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2002)

THE LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2004)

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Lorne Shirinian

Born in Toronto in 1945. He completed an Honours BA in French language and literature from the University of Toronto, an MA in Comparative Literature at Carleton University and a PhD. in Comparative Literature at l'Universit? de Montr?al. He founded and edited Manna: a review of contemporary poetry (1971 to 1974). He lived, taught and wrote in the Montreal area for 20 years. In 1994, he moved to Kingston, where he is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Selected Publications:

Poetry: Rough Landing. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2000. Earthquake. Lewiston, NY: the Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. Poems of Dispersion and Other Rites of Movement. Toronto: Manna Publising, 1977. Manuscript: Tom Sturgess. Abbey Publishers: Toronto, 1972.

Fiction: When Darkness Falls Upon Us. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2005 Memories Orphans. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2003. History of Armenia and Other Fiction. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 1999. Beginnings and Ends. Toronto: the Zoryan Institute, 1991.

Drama: This Dark Thing: Two One Act Plays. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2004. Exile in the Cradle. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2003.

Cultural Criticism: Armenian North American Literature, A Critical Introduction: Genocide, Diaspora, and Symbols. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. The Republic of Armenia and the Rethinking of the North American Diaspora in Literature. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. The Impact of the Armenian Genocide: Eighty-Three Years of Survival and Memory in the Armenian Diaspora. Toronto: Lectures and Papers in Ethnicity, Number 27, University of Toronto, 1998. Survivor Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide. Reading, England: Taderon Press, 1999. Quest for Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 1999. Writing Memory: The Search for Home in Armenian Diaspora Literature as Cultural Practice. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2000. The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference (co-authored with Alan Whitehorn). Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2001. The Landscape of Memory: Perspectives on the Armenia Diaspora. Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2004

At (Royal Military College of Canada) had his new book, Quest for Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada, published by Blue Heron Press and can be purchased from Blue Heron Press, 160 Greenlees Drive, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 6P4.

Visit their website: www.blueheronpress.ca. Tel: (613) 549-4334; Fax: (613) 549-5318.

Blue Heron Press will also publish his next book, Writing Memory: The Search for Home in Armenian Diaspora Literature as Cultural Practice, in December 2000.