Sandra Gwyn

Canadian journalist and writer

Sandra Gwyn
Born	(1935-05-17)May 17, 1935 St. John's, Newfoundland
Died	May 26, 2000(2000-05-26) (aged 65)
Spouse	Richard Gwyn

Alexandra Sandra Fraser Gwyn, OC (17 May 1935 – 26 May 2000) was a Canadian journalist and writer.

She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, the daughter of Claude Fraser and Ruth Harley. After her father's death, her mother remarried and the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia where Sandra attended Sacred Heart Convent. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 1955. After graduating, she moved to London where she worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. She returned to Ottawa and married Richard Gwyn in 1958.^[1]

During the 1970s, she was the Ottawa editor for Saturday Night.

In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.^[1]

She died in 2000 after a five-year fight against breast cancer. Richard Gwyn subsequently launched a literary award, the Winterset Award, in her memory to honour writers from Newfoundland and Labrador.^[2]

Selected works

Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War ISBN 0-00-639485-X (1992)
Mary Pratt (1989)
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984), winner of the 1984 Governor General's Awards.

References

^ ^a ^b "Sandra Gwyn". The Telegraph. 29 August 2000. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "Winter set for N.L.'s top literary prize". cbc.ca, March 27, 2008.

External links

Order of Canada Citation
For King and Empire Canada's Soldiers in the Great War

Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

1930s

Thomas Beattie Roberton, TBR: Newspaper Pieces (1936)
Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937)
John Murray Gibbon, Canadian Mosaic (1938)
Laura Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter (1939)

1940s

J. F. C. Wright, Slava Bohu (1940)
Emily Carr, Klee Wyck (1941)
Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country (1942)
Edgar McInnis, The Unguarded Frontier (1942)
E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry (1943)
John Robins, The Incomplete Anglers (1943)
Dorothy Duncan, Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
Edgar McInnis, The War: Fourth Year (1944)
Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)
Evelyn M. Richardson, We Keep a Light (1945)
Frederick Phillip Grove, In Search of Myself (1946)
Arthur R. M. Lower, Colony to Nation (1946)
William Sclater, Haida (1947)
Robert MacGregor Dawson, The Government of Canada (1947)
Thomas Head Raddall, Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)
C. P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)
Hugh MacLennan, Cross-country (1949)
Robert MacGregor Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada (1949)

1950s

Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Saskatchewan (1950)
W. L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)
Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile (1951)
Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)
Bruce Hutchison, The Incredible Canadian (1952)
J. M. S. Careless, Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)
N. J. Berrill, Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)
Hugh MacLennan, Thirty and Three (1954)
Arthur R. M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream (1954)
N. J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind (1955)
Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)
Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North (1956)
Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny (1957)
Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)
Pierre Berton, Klondike (1958)
Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (1958)
[No award] (1959)

1960s

Frank Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism (1960)
T. A. Goudge, The Ascent of Life (1961)
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
J.M.S. Careless, Brown of the Globe (1963)
Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds (1964)
James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada (1965)
George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (1966)
Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature (1967)
Mordecai Richler, Hunting Tigers Under Glass (1968)
[No award] (1969)

1970s

[No award] (1970)
Pierre Berton, The Last Spike (1971)
[No award] (1972)
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years (1974)
Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls (1975)
Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
F. R. Scott, Essays on the Constitution (1977)
Roger Caron, Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978)
Maria Tippett, Emily Carr (1979)
Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, C.D. Howe (1979)
Larry Pratt and John Richards, Prairie Capitalism (1979)

1980s

Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)
George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)
Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)
Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (1983)
Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)
Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (1985)
Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)
Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album (1987)
Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room (1988)
Robert Calder, Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989)

1990s

Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times (1990)
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)
Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)
Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon (1993)
John Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)
Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
Rachel Manley, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)
David Adams Richards, Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998)
Marq de Villiers, Water (1999)

2000s

Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)
Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap (2001)
Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (2002)
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003)
Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2004)
John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (2005)
Ross King, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007)
Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)
M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009)

2010s

Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada (2010)
Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)
Ross King, Leonardo and the Last Supper (2012)
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)
Michael John Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)
Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)
Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)
Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (2017)
Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)
Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother (2019)