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
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SITES:
www.stephengill.ca
www.stephengillcriticism.info
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