Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Award winning author Diana Berseford-Kroeger, who
was raised in
Ireland, calls herself a Renegade Scientist. She is the author of at
least five
non-fiction books, two novels, three mysteries, and over 200 short
pieces, some
of which have been aired on radio and have been performed live for the
public.
photo © by Christian H. Kroeger
She has frequently contributed to, written for, and
hosted programs for radio
and television in Canada, Europe, Israel and the USA. The television
documentary series “Recreating Eden” first aired
“The Renegade Scientist”
about her life and her research garden in 2008. This has now been
distributed
worldwide. In 2005, the CBC’s flagship program,
“Ideas,” aired “The Ideas of
Diana Beresford-Kroeger.”
She has also appeared on the
National Public Radio
(NPR) program “Living Earth,” and other programs in
the USA and Canada. In
addition, Diana has
regularly published
articles in an array of popular journals, magazines and newspapers in
North
America and Europe.
Diana has studied classical botany,
medical biochemistry, organic and
raidionuclear chemistry, and experimental surgery in Ireland, the USA
and
Canada. Her scientific publications appear in such journals such as The
American Heart Journal, The Canadian
‘Heart Journal, and
The Journal of Microscopy.
Diana has
lectured at the University College Cork (Ireland) and at Carleton
University,
received a fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and worked as a
research scientist at the Canadian Department of Agriculture and the
Ottawa
School of Medicine, as well as the aforementioned institutions. In 2010
she was
elected a Wings Fellow by Wings World Quest for her scientific research
and
discovery.
She writes and conducts
research in her extensive private gardens at
Merrickville and will be guest speaker at the Media Club monthly
meeting on November 22..
Diana
Berseford-Kroeger's books include:
2003 - Arboretum
America: A Philosophy of the Forest, which won the American
National Arbour
Day Foundation Media Award in 2005 for exemplary educational work on
trees and
forests
2004 - A Garden
for Life, originally published in 1999 as Bioplanning
a North Temperate
Garden
2004 - Time Will
Tell, a collection
of short
stories
2010 - The Global
Forest - a collection of
40
essays
2010 - Arboretum
Borealis - A Lifeline of the Planet - the
sister book to Arboretum America, about the great
northern forests and their importance to the global eco system.
Her novels are Nellie,
and The Terrace
COPYRIGHT
ISSUES
Translators and Writers join forces
Literary
Translators Association of Canada Joins Writers Coalition on Copyright
The
Professional Writers of Canada (PWAC), Bulletin number 7.3 announced on
Friday, 9th July, 2010:
The Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) has joined with
PWAC, The Writers Union of Canada (TWUC), the Playwrights Guild of
Canada (PGC) and the League of Canadian Poets (LCP) in our coalition
around the need for changes to enshrine the right for compensation for
use within the proposed legislation to amend Canadian copyright law.
Through the summer and fall we will be working to develop a toolkit to
share with our collective memberships and other writers' organizations
to communicate with decision-makers on appropriate changes to the draft
bill."
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