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1891-2018 (Creation)
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- Uppal, Priscila
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12.56 m of textual records
55 photographs: b&w and col. ; 25 x 32 cm or smaller
880 photographs (jpeg)
2 videocassettes : VHS
5 T-shirts
3 prints : posters
101 diskettes
27 optical discs : CD
2 USB memory drives
4 audio files (mp3)
3 video files (3 min.) : col., 29.97 fps, 4:3, sd., 720 x 486 pixels; 9.12 GB
3 video files (1 min., 30 sec.) : col., 29.97 fps, 4:3, sd., 680 x 486 pixels; 18.8 MB
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Priscila Uppal was born in Ottawa in 1974. She was a poet, novelist and professor of creative writing at York University. She completed a double honours B.A. in English and Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature at York University in 1997 and 2002, respectively, and an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto in 1998. She published nine collections of poetry including 'Ontological Necessities' (2006) (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize), 'Traumatology' (2010) and 'Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010' (2010). Her work has appeared in national and international magazines. Her first novel, 'The Divine Economy of Salvation,' and the anthology 'Uncommon Ground : A Celebration of Matt Cohen,' which she co-edited with Graeme Gibson, Dennis Lee and Wayne Grady, were both published in 2002. Uppal's second novel, 'To Whom it May Concern,' was published in 2009, followed by 'Cover Before Striking,' published in 2015. Her non-fiction books are 'We Are What We Mourn' (2009) and 'Projection' (2013). Her play, 'What Linda Said,' was first performed at the SummerWorks Performance Festival in August 2017, and poems performed in the play were published by Gap Riot Press as a chapbook. Uppal also edited several collected works including 'The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World' (2009), 'The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories' (2010), and The Best Canadian Poetry in English' (2011). She was the first poet-in-residence for the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament (2011) and Olympic poet-in-residence at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the 2012 London Summer Games. Uppal died in Toronto on September 5, 2018.
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The fonds consists of drafts of published and unpublished poems, plays, stories, and novels, including those written for creative writing courses taken at York, drafts of poems written for her published poetry collections 'How to Draw Blood from a Stone,' 'Confessions of a Fertility Expert,' 'Pretending to Die,' 'Live Coverage,' 'Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010' and 'Traumatology'. Also included is correspondence, research files, notes, and drafts related to Uppal's two novels 'The Divine Economy of Salvation' and 'To Whom it May Concern.' The fonds also includes the edited drafts of submissions and correspondence related to 'Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen'. Files in the fonds also pertain to Uppal's work preparing anthologies as editor for 'The Exile Book of Poetry in Translation: Twenty Canadian Poets Take on the World' and 'The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories.' Records in this fonds also include personal and professional correspondence, drafts of plays, files regarding literary activities, including grant applications, personal appearances at conferences and events to promote publications, editorial work, writing workshops, and literary ephemera such as posters, programmes, flyers, catalogues and T-shirts. The fonds also includes teaching evaluations filled out by Uppal's students at York University, as well as literary works, stories, examinations, and final project submissions by graduate students whose work was supervised by Priscila Uppal.
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Donated by Priscila Uppal in 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2012; and Jit Uppal, brother of Priscila Uppal, in 2018.
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The fonds comprises the following accessions: 2002-030, 2003-038, 2009-011, 2012-011, and 2018-047. No further accruals are expected.
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- Lee, Dennis (Subject)
- Gibson, Graeme, 1934- (Subject)
- Grady, Wayne (Subject)
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2003/01/17 Sean Smith:. (Creation)
2003/01/17 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
2003/01/17 Dubeau. Updated description.
2003/04/08 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid.
2003/09/22 Sean Smith. Updated description to include 2003-038.
2012/08/07 RJL. Updated for new accession.
2014/07/22 Migrated to AtoM.
2020/03/28 KCP. Added access point(s).
2021/10/19 J. Grant. Post-migration metadata clean-up. Addition of 2009-011.
2024/03/26 KC. Updated physical description area and notes area.
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- English