Sandra Djwa

Sandra Djwa is a Canadian writer, critic and cultural biographer. She taught Canadian literature in the English department at Simon Fraser University. She was part of a 70s movement to establish the study of Canadian literature and was editor of Poetry, “Letters in Canada” for the University of Toronto Quarterly .

She is best known for articles on Canadian poets like Margaret Atwood and for her biographies of distinguished Canadians including F.R. Scott, and Roy Daniells. An upcoming biography of the poet PK Page," Journey With No Maps", is to be released in 2012. Djwa's biography of Scott was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Prize in 1988. In 2002, the biography of Roy Daniells was awarded the Lorne Pierce Gold medal for literature from the Royal Society of Canada.

She has also edited and introduced other books, including the memoirs of Carl F. Klinck, first editor of "The Literary History of Canada". In 1981 she was awarded a Killam Senior Fellowship, in 1994 elected to the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1999 the Trimark Award for Mentoring. In 2002, Djwa was awarded an honorary degree from Memorial University, Newfoundland. She is now a general editor of the "Collected Works of P.K. Page".