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{{Short description|Canadian poet and advocate for survivors of covert mind control experiments on children}}
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'''Ann Diamond''' (born 11 April 1951 in [[Montreal]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Boyd |first=Colin |date=2013-12-16 |title=Ann Diamond |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ann-diamond |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |archive-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413091755/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ann-diamond |url-status=live }}</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[poet]], [[short story]] [[writer]], [[novelist]] and [[blogger]].
'''Ann Diamond''' (born 11 April 1951 in [[Montreal]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Boyd |first=Colin |date=2013-12-16 |title=Ann Diamond |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ann-diamond |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |archive-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413091755/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ann-diamond |url-status=live }}</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[poet]], [[short story]] [[writer]], [[novelist]] and [[conspiracy theorist]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
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Diamond's first book, ''Lil'', was published in 1977. Her second book, ''A Nun's Diary'', was adapted for theatre by Robert LePage (retitled ''Echo'')<ref name=":0" /> and presented in Montreal and Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.<ref name="Koustas2016">{{Cite book |last=Koustas |first=Jane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UVyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 |title=Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation |date=2016 |publisher=[[McGill-Queen's University Press]] |isbn=978-0-7735-4675-2 |language=en}}</ref> Her third book of poetry, ''Terrorist Letters'', was published in 1992.
Diamond's first book, ''Lil'', was published in 1977. Her second book, ''A Nun's Diary'', was adapted for theatre by Robert LePage (retitled ''Echo'')<ref name=":0" /> and presented in Montreal and Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.<ref name="Koustas2016">{{Cite book |last=Koustas |first=Jane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UVyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 |title=Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation |date=2016 |publisher=[[McGill-Queen's University Press]] |isbn=978-0-7735-4675-2 |language=en}}</ref> Her third book of poetry, ''Terrorist Letters'', was published in 1992.


Expanding beyond poetry, Diamond released her first novel, ''Mona's Dance'', in 1989, followed by her short story collections ''Snakebite'' in 1989 and ''Evil Eye'' in 1991. Her narrative style has been called "distinctive" as it "blur[s] ... realism and surrealism";<ref name=":0" /> her fiction also tends to "feature female characters burdened by painful relationships."<ref name=":0" /> ''Evil Eye'' went on to win the 1994 [[Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction |url=https://qwf.org/prize/the-paragraphe-hugh-maclennan-prize-for-fiction/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202184035/https://qwf.org/prize/the-paragraphe-hugh-maclennan-prize-for-fiction/ |archive-date=2023-02-02 |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=[[Quebec Writers' Federation]]}}</ref> In 2000, Diamond released ''Dead White Males'', followed by ''Static Control'' in 2006.
Expanding beyond poetry, Diamond released her first novel, ''Mona's Dance'', in 1989, followed by her short story collections ''Snakebite'' in 1989 and ''Evil Eye'' in 1991. Her narrative style has been called "distinctive" as it "blur[s] ... realism and surrealism";<ref name=":0" /> her fiction also tends to "feature female characters burdened by painful relationships."<ref name=":0" /> ''Evil Eye'' went one to win the 1994 [[Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction |url=https://qwf.org/prize/the-paragraphe-hugh-maclennan-prize-for-fiction/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202184035/https://qwf.org/prize/the-paragraphe-hugh-maclennan-prize-for-fiction/ |archive-date=2023-02-02 |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=[[Quebec Writers' Federation]]}}</ref> In 2000, Diamond released ''Dead White Males'', followed by ''Static Control'' in 2006.


==Conspiracy theories==
==Conspiracy theories==
In 2006, Diamond published a memoir, ''My Cold War'', where she claims to be a victim of secret mind-control experiments, allegedly sponsored by the American CIA.<ref name=":0" /> The book was republished under the title ''A Certain Girl'' in 2011.
In 2006, Diamond published a memoir, ''My Cold War'', where she claims to be a victim of secret mind-control experiments, allegedly sponsored by the American CIA.<ref name=":0" /> The book was republished under the title ''A Certain Girl'' in 2011.


In 2014, Diamond published ''The Man Next Door'' about her friend and neighbour [[Leonard Cohen]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacLeod |first=Meredith |date=2016-11-11 |title=Music experts reflect on legacy of Leonard Cohen, 'a national treasure' |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/music-experts-reflect-on-legacy-of-leonard-cohen-a-national-treasure-1.3156352 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=[[CTVNews]] |language=en |archive-date=2018-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203065430/https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/music-experts-reflect-on-legacy-of-leonard-cohen-a-national-treasure-1.3156352 |url-status=live }}</ref> Since then Diamond has made claims that Cohen was a CIA and [[Mossad]] agent who spoke in private about a genocide of non-Jews planned by [[Jacob Rothschild]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/good-vibrations-podcast/gvp-231-ann-diamond-mk-ultra-leonard-cohen |title=GVP #231 - Ann Diamond - MK-Ultra & Leonard Cohen |date=2023-02-13 |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=uk-podcasts.co.uk |publisher=GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST|archive-date=20 December 2023|archive-url=https://archive.is/SaEjE}}</ref> She has also expressed that [[rock music]] has been used to promote the degradation of society.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://henrymakow.com/2015/01/Leonard-Cohen-Illuminati-Jewish-agent.html |title=Leonard Cohen- Illuminati Jewish Secret Agent? |date=January 2, 2015 |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=Henrymakow.com |last=Diamond |first=Ann |archive-url=https://archive.is/LSxZX |archive-date=18 May 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Diamond published ''The Man Next Door'' about her friend and neighbour [[Leonard Cohen]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacLeod |first=Meredith |date=2016-11-11 |title=Music experts reflect on legacy of Leonard Cohen, 'a national treasure' |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/music-experts-reflect-on-legacy-of-leonard-cohen-a-national-treasure-1.3156352 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=[[CTVNews]] |language=en |archive-date=2018-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203065430/https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/music-experts-reflect-on-legacy-of-leonard-cohen-a-national-treasure-1.3156352 |url-status=live }}</ref> Since then Diamond has made claims that Cohen was a CIA and [[Mossad]] agent who warned the world of a genocide of non-Jews planned by [[Jacob Rothschild]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/good-vibrations-podcast/gvp-231-ann-diamond-mk-ultra-leonard-cohen |title=GVP #231 - Ann Diamond - MK-Ultra & Leonard Cohen |date=2023-02-13 |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=uk-podcasts.co.uk |publisher=GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST|archive-date=20 December 2023|archive-url=https://archive.is/SaEjE}}</ref> She has also expressed that [[rock music]] has been used to promote the degradation of society.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://henrymakow.com/2015/01/Leonard-Cohen-Illuminati-Jewish-agent.html |title=Leonard Cohen- Illuminati Jewish Secret Agent? |date=January 2, 2015 |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=Henrymakow.com |last=Diamond |first=Ann |archive-url=https://archive.is/LSxZX |archive-date=18 May 2015}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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* ''Snakebite'' (1989)
* ''Snakebite'' (1989)
* ''Evil Eye'' (1991), winner of the [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards|Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]]<ref name=":1" />
* ''Evil Eye'' (1991), winner of the [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards|Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]]<ref name=":1" />
* ''Short Tales from Guyana to New York'' (2014)
* ''The Pink Pearl'' (2018)
* ''The Search Is Over'' (2023)


=== Novels ===
=== Novels ===

Revision as of 12:38, 29 December 2023

For the New Zealand hotel-keeper, storekeeper and midwife, see Ann Diamond (midwife). For the English journalist, see Anne Diamond.
Ann Diamond
Born (1951-04-11) April 11, 1951 (age 73)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationWriter, poet, novelist
NationalityCanadian
Alma materConcordia University
Goddard College
GenrePoetry, Fiction
Notable awardsHugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (1994)
Website
anndiamond.ca

Ann Diamond (born 11 April 1951 in Montreal)[1] is a Canadian poet, short story writer, novelist and conspiracy theorist.

Early life

Diamond was born 11 April 1951 in Montreal.[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University before studying creative writing at Goddard College.[1]

Early work

Diamond's first book, Lil, was published in 1977. Her second book, A Nun's Diary, was adapted for theatre by Robert LePage (retitled Echo)[1] and presented in Montreal and Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.[2] Her third book of poetry, Terrorist Letters, was published in 1992.

Expanding beyond poetry, Diamond released her first novel, Mona's Dance, in 1989, followed by her short story collections Snakebite in 1989 and Evil Eye in 1991. Her narrative style has been called "distinctive" as it "blur[s] ... realism and surrealism";[1] her fiction also tends to "feature female characters burdened by painful relationships."[1] Evil Eye went one to win the 1994 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.[3] In 2000, Diamond released Dead White Males, followed by Static Control in 2006.

Conspiracy theories

In 2006, Diamond published a memoir, My Cold War, where she claims to be a victim of secret mind-control experiments, allegedly sponsored by the American CIA.[1] The book was republished under the title A Certain Girl in 2011.

In 2014, Diamond published The Man Next Door about her friend and neighbour Leonard Cohen.[4] Since then Diamond has made claims that Cohen was a CIA and Mossad agent who warned the world of a genocide of non-Jews planned by Jacob Rothschild.[5] She has also expressed that rock music has been used to promote the degradation of society.[6]

Personal life

Diamond has stated that she has a sub-personality that is a "shaman whose deep mission is liberating stories from the world of the unconscious".[7]

Selected works

Poetry

  • Lil (1977)
  • A Nun's Diary (1984)
  • Terrorist Letters (1992)

Short story collections

Novels

  • Mona's Dance (1989)
  • Dead White Males (2000)
  • Static Control (2006)

Memoir

  • My Cold War (2006), republished as A Certain Girl in 2011

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Boyd, Colin (2013-12-16). "Ann Diamond". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  2. ^ Koustas, Jane (2016). Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-4675-2.
  3. ^ a b "The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  4. ^ MacLeod, Meredith (2016-11-11). "Music experts reflect on legacy of Leonard Cohen, 'a national treasure'". CTVNews. Archived from the original on 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  5. ^ "GVP #231 - Ann Diamond - MK-Ultra & Leonard Cohen". uk-podcasts.co.uk. GOOD VIBRATIONS PODCAST. 2023-02-13. Archived from the original on 20 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  6. ^ Diamond, Ann (January 2, 2015). "Leonard Cohen- Illuminati Jewish Secret Agent?". Henrymakow.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
  7. ^ Diamond, Ann. "Ann Diamond Biography". Anndiamond.ca. Archived from the original on 20 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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