Awards & Winners

Bertram Brooker

Date of Birth 31-March-1888
Place of Birth London Borough of Croydon
(Greater London, United Kingdom, London, England, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality Canada, England
Profession Novelist, Journalist
Bertram Richard Brooker was a Canadian writer, painter, musician, and advertising agency executive. Born in Croydon, England, to Richard Brooker and Mary Ann Brooker, he moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1905 with his family. In 1913 he rented a movie theatre in Neepawa, Manitoba. That same year he married Mary Aurilla Porter. In 1914 he became editor of the Portage Review, a local newspaper. In 1915 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers in Winnipeg. After the war he worked for The Winnipeg Tribune, The Regina Leader-Post and The Winnipeg Free Press. He moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1921 and joined the staff of Marketing magazine. Brooker served as the magazine's editor and publisher from 1924 until 1926. In 1923, he published his first book, Subconscious Selling. In 1929 he joined the staff of the J.J. Gibbons Advertising Agency. In 1931 Brooker was embroiled in a controversy about nudity in art when a painting of his was removed from a gallery exhibition because it contained nudity. Brooker later wrote the essay "Nudes and Prudes" in 1931 as a rebuke. In 1936, Brooker's novel Think of the Earth became the first work to win the Governor General's Award for Fiction. In 1940 he joined the staff of the MacLaren Advertising Co.

Awards by Bertram Brooker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bertram Brooker.

1936


Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
Honored for : Think of the Earth

Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Think of the Earth