Caroline Adderson

Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963 in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada ) is a Canadian writer who has written novels and short stories and has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize twice .

Life

Caroline Adderson was born on September 9, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta. She studied at the University of British Columbia , where she graduated with a degree in education .

Her first collection of short stories, Bad imaginings (1993), was among the shortlist of the Governor General's Award for Fiction and won in 1994 the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize . Her second novel, Sitting Practice , also won the 2004 BC Book Prizes award . Only Audrey Thomas has won the award three times so far. In addition, Adderson has already won the CBC Literary Competition three times. In 2006 she was honored with the Marian Engel Award , which is given annually to an author in the middle of her career to honor her entire work.

The National Post's two literary critics , Alex Good and Steven W. Beattie, named Caroline Adderson one of the ten most underrated writers in Canada in 2010, particularly emphasizing the language of their novels, which would be close to poetry.

In 2011 she represented the jury for the renowned Canadian literary magazine The Malahat Review and its Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction and gave the laudatory speech for winner Kris Bertin and his short story Girl On the Fire Escape .

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Short stories

• Bad Imaginings (1993) ISBN 0889841721
• Pleased to Meet You (2006) (Longlist Scotiabank Giller Prize ) ISBN 0887622208

Novels

• A History of Forgetting (1999), nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
• Sitting Practice (2003) ISBN 0887621295
• The Sky is Falling (2010) Thomas Allen Publishers (Longlist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award )

Novellas

• Mr. Justice (2005) ISBN 0973588136

Children's books

• Very Serious Children (2007)
• I, Bruno (2007)
• Bruno for Real (2008)
• Jasper John Dooley: Star of the Week (2012)
• Middle of Nowhere (2012)
• Jasper John Dooley: Left Behind (2013)

Awards and nominations

• 1993: Shortlist , Governor General's Award for Fiction , for Bad Imaginings
• 1994: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , for Bad Imaginings
• 2004: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Sitting Practice
• 2006: Marian Engel Award
• 2013: Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize , for Middle of Nowhere

Individual evidence

1. ^ WH New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 9.
2. ↑ Banff Center  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Alex Good / Steven W. Beattie: Flying Under the Radar: 10 Underrated Canadian Authors ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: National Post , August 25, 2010. Accessed February 10, 2012.  
4. ↑ http://www.malahatreview.ca/jack_hodgins_award/2011_winner.html
5. ↑ http://www.malahatreview.ca/excerpts/bertin.html
6. ↑ Mark Medley: A dozen Canadians on International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: National Post , November 7, 2011. Accessed February 10, 2012. 
7. ^ Winners of the 2013 BC Book Prizes announced . In: The Georgia Straight . May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.