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Miriam Mandel (June 24, 1930 – February 13, 1982) was a Canadian poet who won Canada's Governor General's Award. ==Life== Miriam Mandel was born in Rockglen, Saskatchewan.〔 She gained her B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1950.〔 In 1949 she married Eli Mandel, and after her graduation the couple moved to Toronto where he worked on a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. After he received his doctorate in 1957, they moved to Edmonton, where he taught at the University of Alberta until 1967.〔"Mandel, Eli," Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, URegina.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011.〕 Miriam and Eli Mandel had two children, Evie and Charles.〔"(Elias (Eli) Wolf Mandel Biography )," Estevan, Saskatchewan, Gent-Family.com, Web, Apr. 25, 2011.〕 In 1967 the couple divorced and Eli Mandel remarried.〔 Shortly after their marriage broke up, Miriam Mandel began writing poetry.〔Marlene Alt, "(Mandel, Miriam )," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1290.〕 She won the Governor General's Award in 1973 for her first collection, ''Lions At Her Face.''〔"(Mandel, Miriam, 1930-1982 )," Special Collections, University of Calgary Library, UCalgary.ca, Web, Apr, 24, 2011.〕 Miriam Mandel was a long-time sufferer from depression.〔 Patrick Lane, who was inspired by her to write his 1983 poem "And of the Measure of Winter We Are Sure", later said: "I remembered her from a few years before, a dark, winter night, three in the morning, the two of us out night-walking, separate in our fidelities, through the snow in Edmonton, thirty below, a wind, no one else outside, and passing her, our eyes meeting briefly, a nod, and then passing on, the look on her face not one of despair, but of such a loneliness ... that's why I wrote the poem, remembering Miriam, remembering the hell of an Edmonton winter."〔Questions and Answers, "(And of the Measure of Winter We Are Sure )," CanLit Poets, ''Canadian Literature,''〕 Miriam Mandel died in Edmonton by suicide.〔 Novelist Sheila Watson edited Miriam Mandel's ''Collected Poems'' in 1984.〔 The Miriam Mandel fonds is at the University of Calgary.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miriam Mandel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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