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Hubert Evans (author)
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'''Hubert Evans''' (1892 - 1986) was a [[Canada|Canadian]] writer.<ref>"At 90, alone by the sea, B.C. author still writing". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', June 17, 1982.</ref> He is most noted for his 1954 novel ''Mist on the River'', which has been described as the first Canadian novel ever to present a realistic portrait of [[First Nations]] people as its central characters.<ref name=ncl>"New Canadian Library". ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'', April 14, 1973.</ref>
Evans was born in [[Vankleek Hill, Ontario|Vankleek Hill]], [[Ontario]] and raised in [[Galt, Ontario|Galt]].<ref name=twigg>Alan Twigg, ''Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years''. [[Harbour Publishing]], 1986. ISBN 978-0-920080-88-7.</ref> He briefly worked as a journalist before enlisting in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] during [[World War I]], and after the war he settled at [[Roberts Creek, British Columbia|Roberts Creek]], [[British Columbia]].<ref name=twigg/> His first novel, ''The New Front Line'', was published in 1927, and ''Mist on the River'' followed in 1954.<ref name=twigg/> Throughout his career, he also published poetry, short stories, theatrical and radio plays, juvenile and young adult literature, and non-fiction writing on First Nations culture and nature and conservation topics.<ref name=evans93>"Evans, 93, has novel on way Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years by Alan Twigg". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', January 5, 1986.</ref>
''Mist on the River'' was reissued as part of the [[New Canadian Library]] series in 1973, with a foreword by [[W. H. New]].<ref name=ncl/> His final novel, ''O Time in Your Flight'', was published in 1979, by which time Evans was nearly blind.<ref>"The Unsinkable Hubert Evans". ''[[Lethbridge Herald]]'', December 20, 1980.</ref>
When the [[BC Book Prizes]] were established in 1985, the award for non-fiction was named the [[Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize]] in Evans's honour.<ref>"$1,000 prizes for B.C. books". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', October 21, 1985.</ref> ''Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years'', a biography of Evans by writer Alan Twigg, was published in early 1986,<ref name=evans93/> and Evans died, aged 94, in June of that year.<ref>"Novelist Hubert Evans dies of pneumonia at 94". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', June 18, 1986.</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1892 births]]
[[Category:1986 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian male writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Canadian male novelists]]
[[Category:Canadian male poets]]
[[Category:Canadian male short story writers]]
[[Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:People from Cambridge, Ontario]]
[[Category:Writers from Ontario]]
[[Category:Writers from British Columbia]]
[[Category:Canadian writers of young adult literature]]
Evans was born in [[Vankleek Hill, Ontario|Vankleek Hill]], [[Ontario]] and raised in [[Galt, Ontario|Galt]].<ref name=twigg>Alan Twigg, ''Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years''. [[Harbour Publishing]], 1986. ISBN 978-0-920080-88-7.</ref> He briefly worked as a journalist before enlisting in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] during [[World War I]], and after the war he settled at [[Roberts Creek, British Columbia|Roberts Creek]], [[British Columbia]].<ref name=twigg/> His first novel, ''The New Front Line'', was published in 1927, and ''Mist on the River'' followed in 1954.<ref name=twigg/> Throughout his career, he also published poetry, short stories, theatrical and radio plays, juvenile and young adult literature, and non-fiction writing on First Nations culture and nature and conservation topics.<ref name=evans93>"Evans, 93, has novel on way Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years by Alan Twigg". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', January 5, 1986.</ref>
''Mist on the River'' was reissued as part of the [[New Canadian Library]] series in 1973, with a foreword by [[W. H. New]].<ref name=ncl/> His final novel, ''O Time in Your Flight'', was published in 1979, by which time Evans was nearly blind.<ref>"The Unsinkable Hubert Evans". ''[[Lethbridge Herald]]'', December 20, 1980.</ref>
When the [[BC Book Prizes]] were established in 1985, the award for non-fiction was named the [[Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize]] in Evans's honour.<ref>"$1,000 prizes for B.C. books". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', October 21, 1985.</ref> ''Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years'', a biography of Evans by writer Alan Twigg, was published in early 1986,<ref name=evans93/> and Evans died, aged 94, in June of that year.<ref>"Novelist Hubert Evans dies of pneumonia at 94". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', June 18, 1986.</ref>
==References==
[[Category:1892 births]]
[[Category:1986 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian male writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Canadian male novelists]]
[[Category:Canadian male poets]]
[[Category:Canadian male short story writers]]
[[Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:People from Cambridge, Ontario]]
[[Category:Writers from Ontario]]
[[Category:Writers from British Columbia]]
[[Category:Canadian writers of young adult literature]]
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