Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943-2009 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
5.97 m of textual records
9 audio cassettes
1 CD
94 photoprints : b&w and col. ; 8x10" or smaller
12x 3.5-inch diskettes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Canadian author. Born on a homestead farm near Fairview, Alta., M. Jakober obtained her early education through correspondence courses, later attending high school in Edmonton and graduating from Carleton University. Her published work includes eight novels, poetry and short stories published in Canada and abroad. At age twelve, the author won her first award, a prize for poetry in the International Children's Competition, winning the gold medal in the same competition the following year. A third-place finisher for her novel The mind gods in the 1974 Search-For-A-New-Novelist Competition, M. Jakober won the George Bugnet Award for Fiction (Novel) for Sandinista in 1985 and for Sons of Liberty in 2005, and the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for Only Call Us Faithful in 2002.
Archival history
Acquired between 1987 and 2008.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts of novels, short stories, prose, addresses to various organizations and conferences, and essays written by M. Jakober as a university student. Also includes scrapbooks of reviews, journals, promotional material for published works, research material about Central America and novels and miscellaneous items.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arrangment has been imposed by archivist and is arranged into eight sereis:
- Correspondence
- Journals
- Manuscripts
- Miscellaneous
- Personal financial files
- Promotional material
- Research material
- Scrapbooks
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Some items restricted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Text in English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
All accessions intellectually arranged 2024.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Note
Further accruals expected.
Alternative identifier(s)
ckey
Access points
Subject access points
- Authors, Canadian
- Canadian Literary and Cultural Archives
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts
- Short stories
- Conference proceedings
- Lectures and lecturing
- Diaries
- Research
- Finance, Personal
- Novels
- Essays
- Ephemera
- Awards
- Photographs
- Interviews
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Scrapbooks
- Audio-visual materials
- Sound recordings
- Electronic records
Place access points
Name access points
- Jakober, Marie (Subject)