> BC BookWorld publisher named SFU Shadbolt scholar
BC BookWorld publisher named SFU Shadbolt scholar
April 17, 2007
SFU has named Alan Twigg, author, filmmaker and publisher of the influential arts tabloid BC BookWorld, as the second recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities.
Twigg begins his semester-long appointment within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences this spring, thanks to an endowment from the late Doris Shadbolt, a respected author and arts advocate, and wife of influential B.C. artist, the late Jack Shadbolt.
The fellowship is intended “to recognize and support leaders in the humanities who are not necessarily part of the academy,” says arts and social sciences dean John Pierce.
Describing Twigg as “a real iconoclast,” Pierce says he “works at the interface of literature and publishing and provides an important bridge between those two worlds. He is very much a public intellectual and a champion of literary and artistic culture in B.C.”
Twigg, who was also recently named writer-in-residence at the George Price Centre for Peace in Belize, will lecture in SFU classrooms and the wider community during his tenure in addition to organizing Reckoning ’07. The September conference will focus on the fate of B.C.’s book industry “and celebrate the fact that we have built one of the most successful literary cultures in North America.”
Twigg begins his semester-long appointment within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences this spring, thanks to an endowment from the late Doris Shadbolt, a respected author and arts advocate, and wife of influential B.C. artist, the late Jack Shadbolt.
The fellowship is intended “to recognize and support leaders in the humanities who are not necessarily part of the academy,” says arts and social sciences dean John Pierce.
Describing Twigg as “a real iconoclast,” Pierce says he “works at the interface of literature and publishing and provides an important bridge between those two worlds. He is very much a public intellectual and a champion of literary and artistic culture in B.C.”
Twigg, who was also recently named writer-in-residence at the George Price Centre for Peace in Belize, will lecture in SFU classrooms and the wider community during his tenure in addition to organizing Reckoning ’07. The September conference will focus on the fate of B.C.’s book industry “and celebrate the fact that we have built one of the most successful literary cultures in North America.”