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Kevin Major, author (b at Stephenville, Nfld 12 Sept 1949). After graduating from Memorial University (1972), he worked as a teacher before switching to writing full time. He received the Vicky Metcalf Award for an outstanding body of work in 1992. Although each of Major's books employs a different narrative method, they are similar in exploring problems of adolescence and family life. His early novels are notable for their use of Newfoundland local colour. In Hold Fast (1978), winner of the Canada Council Prize, Far from Shore (1980) and Thirty-six Exposures (1984), Major traces the destructive changes to traditional outport family life and values brought on by unemployment and modern materialism. Dear Bruce Springsteen (1987), weakened by lack of a definite setting, presents a boy's efforts to cope with his parents' separation. Blood Red Ochre (1989) combines the adolescent problem novel, historical fiction and time-shift fantasy to examine the extinction of Newfoundland's Beothuk people.
Major produced a comic fantasy in Eating Between the Lines (1991), winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award. In it, a teenager literally enters the world of classic books to prevent the dissolution of his parents' marriage and to solve his own romantic problems. Comic irony is uppermost in Diana: My Autobiography (1993), about an egocentric 11-year-old obsessed with the Royal Family. No Man's Land (1995), Major's first work for adults, tells of a bloody WWI battle fought by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
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