Sharon Butala
Teoksen The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature tekijä
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Sharon Butala was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, in 1940. She was educated in small towns in Saskatoon, and at the University of Saskatchewan. Butala gave up work as a Special Educator to become a novelist, short story writer, and writer of creative non-fiction. Her book, The Perfection of the näytä lisää Morning reached number one on the bestseller list in July '94. She is one of Canada's most acclaimed authors. Her first short story collection, Queen of the Headaches, was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award in 1986. Her trilogy of novels, The Gates of the Sun, Luna, and The Fourth Archangel, formed an evocative and highly praised portrait of prairie life. Her most recent short story collection, Fever, won the 1992 Authors Awards for Paperback Fiction. Her first non-fiction work, Perfection of the Morning, was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the Saskatchewan non-Fiction Award and The Spirit of Saskatchewan Award in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Tekijä, eräät painokset — 30 kappaletta
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Butala, Sharon
- Syntymäaika
- 1940-08-24
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Canada
- Syntymäpaikka
- Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada - Koulutus
- University of Saskatchewan (B.A., Art; B.Ed., English)
- Ammatit
- teacher
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Marian Engel Award (1998)
Order of Canada (Officer, 2001)
Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Member's Achievement Award
Canada 125 Commemorative Medal
Queen's Jubilee medal
Saskatchewan Centennial Medal - Lyhyt elämäkerta
Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, she has spent the last thirty years on a ranch in the southwest near the Saskatchewan-Montana border. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, but didn't begin writing until she was 38, publishing her first book at 44. She is married to Peter Butala, and has one son, Sean Hoy, and two grandchildren. The Butala ranch, with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, became the Old Man On His Back Conservation Area in 1993. She has published fifteen words of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as essays, articles, and poems and has had five plays produced.
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