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1938-1998 (Creation)
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- Szumigalski, Anne
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There are 1.43 m of textual records, 13 oversize materials, 16 photographs, 2 VHS tapes, 3 reel-to-reel sound recordings and 3 items.
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Anne Howard Szumigalski (nee Davis) was born to parents Mary Winder Allen and Herbert Edward Davis on January 3, 1922 in London, England. She had four sisters and two brothers. During the war Anne served as an interpreter and welfare officer with the British Red Cross Civilian Relief organization and in 1951 Anne and her husband, Jan Waclaw Szumigalski, moved to Canada and to Saskatoon in 1956, where they raised four children.
In Saskatoon Anne was instrumental in the founding of both the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild and the literary journal Grain but also found time to mentor many young poets.
Szumigalski won awards for her writing including: The Saskatchewan Poetry Prize, Saskatchewan Senior Arts Award, the Okanagan Short Story Award, and in 1995 Szumigalski was awarded the Governor General's Award for Poetry for Voice which featured paintings by Marie Elyse St George. In 1989 she was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and the Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1990.
Szumigalski wrote fifteen books of poetry and a memoir, The Voice, the Word, the Text (1990) as well as Z, a play about the Holocaust. Her poetry collections include Woman Reading in Bath (1974), A Game of Angels (1980) and Rapture of the Deep (1991). She also produced four voice poems for the CBC.
Anne Szumigalski died in 1999 and a final posthumous book, A Woman Clothed in Words, edited by her literary executor Mark Abley, appeared in 2012.Grain has also established the annual Anne Szumigalski Editor's Prize which is awarded in her memory.
Custodial history
The collection was sent to Archives and Special Collections by Andris Taskans, Executor of Anne’s Szumigalski’s estate. There are no restrictions in this collection however a few Restricted files are located in Boxes 1, 3 and 4.
Scope and content
The Anne Szumigalski Fonds consists of audio visual material, awards and grants, calendars, contracts, correspondence, memorabilia, news clippings of interest to Anne and those about Anne Szumigalski, many Notebooks filled with poems both finished and unfinished as well as ideas for poems. Information pertaining to her Professional Activities, Reviews on her work as well as Writing by Anne and her various writing partners is also present. A few photographs exist within several of the folders within this collection. The majority of the records are the notebooks and writing by Szumigalski. The date ranges are 1938 to 1998 but predominantly 1990 to 1998. There are 1.43 m of textual records, 13 oversize materials, 16 photographs, 2 VHS tapes, 3 reel-to-reel sound recordings and 3 items.
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University of Regina Archives and Special Collections holds accessions: 91-95, 92-29 and 2006-42; and 2009-70 which is the Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts bust of Ernest Lindner (by Joe Fafard) as well, other of Anne’s papers may be found at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Undated (Creation), April 2011 (Revision)