Barbara Klar (born 1966 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1994 for her poetry collection The Night You Called Me a Shadow.Heather Hodgson, Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. . p. 127.
After completing high school, Klar took writing courses at Fort San before completing a degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan. She published poetry in literary magazines such as Grain, Border Crossings and Prairie Fire before The Night You Called Me a Shadow was published in 1993. The book also won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poetry Award.David Carpenter, The Literary History of Saskatchewan: Volume 2 ~ Progressions. Coteau Books, 2014. . pp. 204-209.
She has since followed up with three further poetry collections, The Blue Field (1999), Tower Road (2004),"Each book unique piece of art". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, December 4, 2004. and Cypress (2008).Cynthia Sugars, The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015. . p. 741. Both The Blue Field and Cypress were shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award. She won a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council in 2004.
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