Douglas College instructor wins GG
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David Zieroth, a long-time instructor in the Creative Writing Department at Douglas College, was this year’s winner of the Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry.
Zieroth’s book The Fly in Autumn was chosen by a national panel as the best work of its kind this year.
According to the panel, “In The Fly in Autumn, David Zieroth addresses our common and defining human fate—the loneliness that is a rehearsal for death—with a tenderness and buoyancy that shows the reader ‘how to walk in the dark with flowers.’ The intricacy and exuberance of rhyme and the breadth of vision are stunning.”
The award is worth $25,000.
The Governor General’s Award is Canada’s oldest and most prestigious award for English- and French-language Canadian literature.
Zieroth retired from Douglas College in 2007.
• New Westminster author Annabel Lyon was short-listed for the Govenor General’s fiction award for her book The Golden Mean.
The award winner was Kate Pullinger, a B.C. native, who wrote The Mistress of Nothing.
