STEPHEN GILL, Profile   

 

Poet Laureate of Ansted University and an Adjunct Professor of European-American University, Stephen Gill is an  expressive voice of Canada, India and Pakistan.  He believes strongly in a democratically elected world government and peace through peaceful means. Global peace and social concerns are the main areas of his interest.                                                                

 

Stephen Gill has authored more than twenty books, including novels, literary criticism, and collections of poems. His poetry and prose have appeared in more than five   hundred publications, mostly  in Canada, the United States of America and India.  He writes usually  in English. Once in a while, he writes poetry in Urdu, Hindi and Panjabi languages.  He has also written and published book reviews, research papers on writers and on world peace. Some of his Urdu/Hindi poems have been sung with music by prominent singers of Pakistan and India.

 

Stephen Gill has received awards and recognitions,  including  four honorary doctorates; and Laureate Man of Letters  from  United  Poets Laureate International; Sahir Award of Honor  from Sahir Cultural Society,  Panjab, India; Plaque from the World Council of Asian Churches (Canada); Pegasus   International Poetry for Peace Award (Poetry in the Arts, Inc., Texas,); The Best Poet of Peace Award  for the year 1993 from Roger Cable 11 (Canada);  and  The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.

 

He has been asked several times by several organizations to judge their poetry competitions, and  he often evaluates dissertations of English Literature for doctoral students of universities in India. He has been the subject of numerous literary essays, books and doctoral studies.   He is also honorary editor/ advisor to several publications, and has edited publications, including the Canadian section of the World Federalist  newspaper, Writer’s Lifeline, and South Asian Christian Diary.

 

He is former    president of Vesta Publications Ltd.; the Canadian Authors Association (the Cornwall, Ont.  Branch); a national vice president of the World Federalists of Canada; the Multicultural Council of Stormont and Dundas;  chief delegate to represent the World University for Canada;   the Christian Cultural Association of South Asians,  Dean of Peace Studies at St. Simon’s  College,  London, England; and Co-chair  of Downtown Improvement Business Area (DBIA) of Cornwall, Ont. Canada.  

 

At present, he is an honorary member of the Ansted University Board of Advisory Council, and a director of the Children’s Aid Society of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry (Canada). He has appeared in several prestigious national and international reference books, including  Immigrants We Read About by George Bonavia, International Production, Ottawa; Who's Who In Canadian Literature, Reference Press, Toronto, Canada; Vesta's Who's Who of North American Poets, Vesta, Canada; Ethnic & Native Canadian Literature: A Bibliography by John Miska, University of Toronto Press; Something About The Author, vol. 63, Gale Research, USA;  Who's Who In Canada, Toronto University Press; and Who's Who in Ontario, Heritage Press, B.C., Canada.                             

 

Stephen Gill was born in Sialkot, Pakistan,  where he passed his early childhood and grew in India. After teaching in Ethiopia for three years, he migrated to England before settling in Canada.

 

(Tel. 613-932-7735)

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Stephen Gill

 Box 32, Cornwall, Ont. K6H 5R9 Canada (Tel. 613-932-7735)

 

Emails: stephengillgazette@gmail.com

 

SOME WEB SITES:

 

www.stephengill.ca

 

www.stephengillcriticism.info

 

www.stephengillcriticism.ca

 

 http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=638&L=G

 

 

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