Hubert Evans (author)

Hubert Evans (1892 - 1986) was a Canadian writer.[1] He is most noted for his 1954 novel Mist on the River, which has been described as the first Canadian novel ever to present a realistic portrait of First Nations people as its central characters.[2]

Evans was born in Vankleek Hill, Ontario and raised in Galt.[3] He briefly worked as a journalist before enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War I, and after the war he settled at Roberts Creek, British Columbia.[3] His first novel, The New Front Line, was published in 1927, and Mist on the River followed in 1954.[3] Throughout his career, he also published poetry, short stories, theatrical and radio plays, juvenile and young adult literature, and non-fiction writing on First Nations culture and nature and conservation topics.[4]

Mist on the River was reissued as part of the New Canadian Library series in 1973, with a foreword by W. H. New.[2] His final novel, O Time in Your Flight, was published in 1979, by which time Evans was nearly blind.[5]

When the BC Book Prizes were established in 1985, the award for non-fiction was named the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in his honour.[6] Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years, a biography of Evans by writer Alan Twigg, was published in early 1986,[4] and Evans died, aged 94, in June of that year.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "At 90, alone by the sea, B.C. author still writing". The Globe and Mail, June 17, 1982.
  2. 1 2 "New Canadian Library". Winnipeg Free Press, April 14, 1973.
  3. 1 2 3 Alan Twigg, Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years. Harbour Publishing, 1986. ISBN 978-0-920080-88-7.
  4. 1 2 "Evans, 93, has novel on way Hubert Evans: The First 93 Years by Alan Twigg". Toronto Star, January 5, 1986.
  5. ↑ "The Unsinkable Hubert Evans". Lethbridge Herald, December 20, 1980.
  6. ↑ "$1,000 prizes for B.C. books". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 1985.
  7. ↑ "Novelist Hubert Evans dies of pneumonia at 94". Toronto Star, June 18, 1986.
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