Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Chris Scott (born 1945 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English-Canadian writer. His novel Antichthon was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and his novel Jack won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 1989.Educated at the University of Hull, Manchester University and the University of Pennsylvania, Scott taught for several years at York University in Toronto. He became a Canadian citizen in 1975, and resided on a farm in Lanark County, Ontario during much of his writing career.He is noted for his mixture of genre literature with experimental fiction; Antichthon, for example, applied the format and tropes of a contemporary spy novel to a historical retelling of the 1593 heresy trial of Giordano Bruno, Jack took as its premise that Thomas Neill Cream, a Scottish-Canadian doctor and murderer, was the real Jack the Ripper, and Quabe's World was a satire of the 20th century trend toward scientific classification of humanity.He has also been a contributor to CBC Radio and a book reviewer for Books in Canada and The Globe and Mail."@en }
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- Chris_Scott_(writer) abstract "Chris Scott (born 1945 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English-Canadian writer. His novel Antichthon was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and his novel Jack won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 1989.Educated at the University of Hull, Manchester University and the University of Pennsylvania, Scott taught for several years at York University in Toronto. He became a Canadian citizen in 1975, and resided on a farm in Lanark County, Ontario during much of his writing career.He is noted for his mixture of genre literature with experimental fiction; Antichthon, for example, applied the format and tropes of a contemporary spy novel to a historical retelling of the 1593 heresy trial of Giordano Bruno, Jack took as its premise that Thomas Neill Cream, a Scottish-Canadian doctor and murderer, was the real Jack the Ripper, and Quabe's World was a satire of the 20th century trend toward scientific classification of humanity.He has also been a contributor to CBC Radio and a book reviewer for Books in Canada and The Globe and Mail.".
- Q1077730 abstract "Chris Scott (born 1945 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England) is an English-Canadian writer. His novel Antichthon was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and his novel Jack won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 1989.Educated at the University of Hull, Manchester University and the University of Pennsylvania, Scott taught for several years at York University in Toronto. He became a Canadian citizen in 1975, and resided on a farm in Lanark County, Ontario during much of his writing career.He is noted for his mixture of genre literature with experimental fiction; Antichthon, for example, applied the format and tropes of a contemporary spy novel to a historical retelling of the 1593 heresy trial of Giordano Bruno, Jack took as its premise that Thomas Neill Cream, a Scottish-Canadian doctor and murderer, was the real Jack the Ripper, and Quabe's World was a satire of the 20th century trend toward scientific classification of humanity.He has also been a contributor to CBC Radio and a book reviewer for Books in Canada and The Globe and Mail.".