1995

  1. • 1976 ARRESTED BY SECRET POLICE, JAILED, AND EXPELLED FROM SOUTH AFRICA

  1. • 1963 RECEIVES M.A.

  1. • 1970 REPORTS ON BLACK SEPTEMBER WAR

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JOCK

FICTION WRITER

2020

  1. • 1957 BEGINS AS PART TIME JOURNALIST AT CANADIAN PRESS AND CBC TELEVISION NEWS

  1. • 1961 BEGINS TO APPEAR ON CBC RADIO, MORNINGSIDE BOOK CRITIC

  1. • 1964 BEGINS PUBLISHING IN NEWSPAPERS

  1. • 1966 APPOINTED AS BOOKS EDITOR AT THE TORONTO TELEGRAM

  1. • 1962 CANADIAN CORRESPONDENT FOR MUTUAL BROADCASTING NETWORK IN U.S.

  1. • 1958 FIRST PUBLISHED SHORT STORY, “THE MUSCLE”

  1. • 1976 SHORT STORY “THE MUSCLE” PUBLISHED BY WEEKEND MAGAZINE AND PUNCH

  1. • 1979 WRITES SHORT STORIES IN PARIS

  1. • 1982 FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED: “THE BLACK QUEEN STORIES”

  1. • 1957 FIRST PUBLISHED POEM, “THE OUTHOUSE”

  1. • 1972 BEGINS TO WRITE POETRY

  1. • 1978 HOGG POEMS AND DRAWINGS PUBLISHED

  1. • 1964 BEGINS INTERVIEWING WRITERS FOR “SHOW ON SHOWS”

  1. • 1966 EDITOR OF WEEKLY “BOOKS” PAGE

  1. • 1972 FOUNDS EXILE, EDITOR IN CHIEF

  1. • 1949 BEGINS TO PAINT

  1. • 1972 BEGINS SERIES OF “HOGG DRAWINGS”

  1. • 1978 “HOGG DRAWINGS” EXHIBITED AT ISSACS GALLERY

  1. • 1992 “HOGG DRAWINGS” EXHIBITED AT CARELTON UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

  1. • 1964 BEGINS PUBLISHING IN NEWSPAPERS

  1. • 1968 RELEASE OF DOCUMENTARY “CALLAGHAN’S NEW YORK”

  1. • 1968 CO-HOSTS CBC’S “THE PUBLIC EYE”

  1. • 1969 RELEASE OF DOCUMENTARY “ISRAEL”

  1. • 1970 INTERVIEWS GOLDA MEIR

  1. • 1962 ENTERS GRAD SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

  1. • 1962 MADE TEACHING FELLOW

  1. • 1965 WRITES GENERAL Ph.D. EXAMS

  1. • 1965 BECOMES LECTURER AT YORK UNIVERSITY, ATKINSON COLLEGE

  1. • 1967 MADE CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT ATKINSON COLLEGE

  1. • 2002 FORCED BY REASONS OF AGE TO RETIRE FROM YORK UNIVERSITY

  1. • 1948 BASEBALL PITCHER

  1. • 1952 NAMED ALL STAR BASKETBALL PLAYER, DUBBED ‘IRON MAN KID’

  1. • 1956 HIGH SCORER AND LEADING REBOUNDER ON JUNIOR VARSITY TEAM AT ASSUMPTION COLLEGE

  1. • 2002 CELEBRATED AS 1954 ATHLETE OF THE YEAR AT ST. MICHAEL’S HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC RETROSPECTIVE

ARTIST

FILM MAKER

JOURNALIST

POET

SCHOLAR

  1. • 1959 EDITS & PUBLISHES CAMPUS JOURNAL “THE CHORUS”

EDITOR

  1. • 1979, 1980 TRANSLATES WORK OF FRENCH POET ROBERT MARTEAU

TRANSLATOR

  1. • 1937 JULY 5, BARRY CALLAGHAN BORN

BARRY CALLAGHAN


man of letters

  1. • 1976 BEGINS WRITING FOR TORONTO LIFE

  1. • 1978 BEGINS REGULAR COLUM FOR TORONTO LIFE: “CALLAGHAN”

  1. • 1968 BEGINS AS LITERARY COLUMNIST FOR MACLEANS

  1. • 1978 TRAVELS TO GERMANY

  1. • 1979 TRAVELS TO SOVIET UNION

  1. • 1976 TRAVELS TO RHODESIA, SOUTH AFRICA

  1. • 1982 SECOND BOOK OF POEMS “AS CLOSE AS WE CAME” PUBLISHED

  1. • 1979 TRAVELS TO CAMEROON AND GABON, REPORTS ON LEPER CAMPS

  1. • 1983, 1984, 1985 TRAVELS TO YUGOSLAVIA AS TRANSLATOR AND POET

  1. • 1984 TRAVELS TO THE BALTIC

  1. • 1983, 1984, 1985 TRAVELS TO ROME AS POET AND STORY WRITER IN RESIDENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME

  1. • 1999 HONORED AS DOCTOR OF LETTERS FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

  1. • 1998 RECEIVES W.O. MITCHELL AWARD FOR FICTION AND EDITORIAL MONITORING

  1. • 1997 NAMED ONE OF TORONTO’S OUTSTANDING CITIZENS

  1. • 1993 RECEIVES TORONTO ARTS AWARD FOR FICTION

  1. • 1988 RECEIVES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD FOR “ACT OF VANDALS” IN TORONTO LIFE

  1. • 1986 RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS FESTIVAL LITERARY AWARD (SHARED WITH MARGARET ATWOOD)

  1. • 1985 RECEIVES CANADA COUNCIL AWARD FOR TRANSLATION

  1. • 1985 RECEIVES GOLD AWARD FOR FICTION FROM THE FOUNDATION OF CANADIAN LETTERS AND PERIODICAL DISTRIBUTORS OF CANADA FOR “LOOKING FOR THE END”

  1. • 1985 RECEIVES CANADIAN BROADCASTING AWARD FOR FICTION, “A CHILDISH MISTAKE”

  1. • 1984 RECEIVES ACTRA AWARD FOR BEST TELEVISION HOST ON “ENTERPRISE” AT CITY TV

  1. • 1943 FIRST COMMUNION AT ST. PETER’S CHURCH

  1. • 1956 ENTERS ASSUMPTION COLLEGE, WINDSOR

  1. • 1950 ENTERS ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE SCHOOL, TORONTO

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  1. • 1969 INTERVIEWS MUHAMMAD ALI

  1. • 1971 INTERVIEWS ANGELA DAVIS

  1. • 1971 IN RESPONSE TO POLITICAL PRESSURE, FIRED FROM CBC

  1. • 1968 PUBLISHES THREE FULL FOLIO PAGE ARTICLE ON TRAVELING WITH PIERRE TRUDEAU IN THE TORONTO TELEGRAM

  1. • 1989 RECEIVES PUSHCART AWARD FOR “A MOTIVELESS MALIGNANCY”

  1. • 2001 HONORED AS DOCTOR OF LAWS FROM GUELPH UNIVERSITY, ONTARIO

  1. • 2009 PUBLISHES NOVEL, “BESIDE STILL WATERS”

  1. • 2007 PUBLISHES COLLECTION OF STORIES, “BETWEEN TRAINS”

  1. • 1995 PUBLISHES COLLECTION OF STORIES, “A KISS IS STILL A KISS”

  1. • 1993 PUBLISHES NOVEL, “WHEN THINGS GET WORST”

  1. • 1989 PUBLISHES NOVEL, “THE WAY THE ANGEL SPREADS HER WINGS”

  1. • 2005 PUBLISHES “RAISE YOU FIVE: ESSAYS AND ENCOUNTERS: 1964 - 2004”

  1. • 2006 PUBLISHES “RAISE YOU TEN: ESSAYS AND ENCOUNTERS: 1964 - 2004”

  1. • 1997 PUBLISHES “HOGG, THE SEVEN LAST WORDS”

  1. • 2001 PUBLISHES “HOGG, THE POEMS AND DRAWINGS”

  1. • 1988 PUBLISHES COLLECTION OF POEMS “STONE BLIND LOVE”

  1. • 1982 PUBLISHES COLLECTION OF POEMS “AS CLOSE AS WE CAME”