Laurence, Margaret (Jean Margaret Laurence), 1926–87, Canadian novelist, b. Manitoba. She lived in Somaliland, Ghana, and England and many of her early works had an African setting. Laurence was particularly concerned with character, and her writings usually focused on women struggling to overcome the limitations of small town life. Among her novels are This Side Jordan (1960), The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), upon which the film Rachel, Rachel (1968) was based, The Fire-Dwellers (1969), and The Diviners (1974). In addition, Laurence published works on African literature, notably A Tree for Poverty (1954), a collection of Somali folktales and poetry, and Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists (1968), a critical evaluation.

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See her Dance on the Earth: A Memoir (1989).

Laurence, Margaret

orig. Jean Margaret Wemyss

(born July 18, 1926, Neepawa, Man., Can.—died Jan. 5, 1987, Lakefield, Ont.) Canadian writer. She lived in Africa with her engineer husband in the 1950s; her experiences there provided material for her early works. She is best known for depicting the lives of women struggling for self-realization in the male-dominated world of western Canada. Her works include the novels The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), and The Fire-Dwellers (1969) and the stories collected in A Bird in the House (1970) and The Diviners (1974). In the 1970s she turned to writing children's books.

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Year in books: a look back at books that captured our attention by Bookmarks

An adaptation of the much-beloved 1964 novel by Margaret Laurence, "The Stone Angel" filmed in Winnipeg in the summer of 2006.

DYLAN BAKER MAKES A FEAST OF A CAREER OF LEFTOVER ROLES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

For as Obiechina himself says "Tutuola''s humour and a sensitive nose for the kind of detail which gives beauty, power and immediacy to writing is illustrated in almost every page of his books" Tutuola''s largely episodic plots following the classical lines of the sagas could not be clearly discerned as novels by Margaret Laurence, but she concedes that: He writes best when most intuitively.

Amos Tutuola's Inherited Poverty and Palmwine Drinking in the Dark ... by Arthur Edgar E. Smith / Literature, writing, book reviews community

Maresev, Aleksei Petrovich

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Maretskaia, Vera

Maretskaia, Vera Petrovna

Marey, Etienne Jules

Marey, Étienne Jules

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