George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is author of more than 100 books. Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal TISH. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2004. When the Indian Hungryalist, also known as Hungry generation, poet Malay Roy Choudhury, was arrested at Kolkata, India, Bowering brought out a special issue of Imago for helping the Indian poet in his trial. Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. Bibliography Novels 1967: Mirror on the Floor, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2014 1973: Fiddler's Night, Vancouver: Dos Equis 1977: A Short Sad Book, Vancouver: Talonbooks; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2017 1980: Burning Water, Toronto: Musson Book Company; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2007 French edition: En eaux troubles, translated by L.-Philippe Hébert, Montreal: Quinze, 1982 1988: Caprice, Toronto/New York: Penguin; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2010 1990: Harry's Fragments, Vancouver: Talonbooks 1994: Shoot!, Toronto: Key Porter Books; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2008 1998: Piccolo Mondo (with Angela Bowering, Michael Matthews & David Bromige), Toronto: Couch House Books 2012: Pinboy, Toronto: Cormorant Books 2015: Writing the Okanagan, Vancouver: Talonbooks 2018: No One, Toronto: ECW Press Short fiction 1974: Flycatcher and Other Stories, Ottawa: Oberon Press 1977: Concentric Circles, Windsor: Black Moss Press 1978: Protective Footwear, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1983: A Place to Die, Ottawa: Oberon Press 1994: The Rain Barrel, Vancouver: Talonbooks 2004: Standing on Richards, Toronto: Viking 2009: The Box, Vancouver: New Star Books 2015: Ten Women, Vancouver: Anvil Press YA Fiction 1994: Parents from Space, Montreal: Roussan 1998: Diamondback Dog, Montreal: Roussan