Caroline Adderson

Canadian novelist and short story writer

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Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963)^[1]^[2] is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published four novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.

Biography

Adderson was born on September 9, 1963, in Edmonton, Alberta^[1] to James Neil and Bernice Adderson.^[2]

She received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia in 1986.^[1]^[2] Following graduation, she attended a writing program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.^[1]

Aside from writing, she has taught at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Simon Fraser University.^[1]^[3]

Adderson presently lives in Vancouver with her husband, Bruce Sweeney.

Awards and honours

In 2006, Adderson received the Marian Engel Award,^[1] "given annually to an outstanding Canadian female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work."^[4]

In 2010, Quill & Quire and The Globe and Mail named The Sky is Falling one of the best books of the year.^[1]

Awards for Adderson's writing
Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
1993	Bad Imaginings	Governor General's Award for English-language fiction	Shortlist	^[1]^[5]
1994	Bad Imaginings	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Winner	^[1]
1999	A History of Forgetting	Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Shortlist	^[1]
2000	A History of Forgetting	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Shortlist	^[1]
2004	Sitting Practice	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Winner	^[1]
2004	Sitting Practice	VanCity Prize	Shortlist	^[1]
2006	Pleased to Meet You	Scotiabank Giller Prize	Longlist	^[1]^[6]
2011	The Sky is Falling	Commonwealth Writers Prize	Nominee	^[1]
2012	The Sky is Falling	International Dublin Literary Award	Longlist	^[7]
2013		Sunday Times Short Story Award	Longlist	^[8]
	Middle of Nowhere	CLA Book of the Year for Children Award	Shortlist	^[9]
	Middle of Nowhere	Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize	Winner	^[10]
2015	Ellen in Pieces	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize	Shortlist
2015	Norman Speak!	Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize	Finalist
2016	Vancouver Vanishes	Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award	Finalist

Publications

As editor

Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival (2016)
Best Canadian Stories 2019 (2019)

Short story collections

Bad Imaginings (1993, ISBN 0-88984-172-1)
Pleased to Meet You: Stories (2006, ISBN 0-88762-220-8)
Sunny Days Inside (2021)

Novels

A History of Forgetting (1999)
Sitting Practice (2003, ISBN 0-88762-129-5)
The Sky is Falling (2010, Thomas Allen Publishers)
Ellen in Pieces (2014, ISBN 1-443-42678-4)
A Russian Sister (2020)

Novella

Mr. Justice (2005, ISBN 0-9735881-3-6)

Children's fiction

Very Serious Children (2007)
Middle of Nowhere (2012)
Norman, Speak!, illustrated by Qin Leng (2014)
A Simple Case of Angels (2014)
Eat, Leo! Eat!, illustrated by Josée Bisaillon (2015)
I Love You, One to Ten, illustrated by Christina Leist (2015)
The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat, illustrated by Stacy Innerst (2019)
It Happened on Sweet Street, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch (2020)
Babble!: And How Punctuation Saved It, illustrated by Roman Muradov (2022)

Bruno series

I, Bruno, illustrated by Helen Flook (2007)
Bruno for Real, illustrated by Helen Flook (2008)

Izzy series

The Izzy books are illustrated by Kelly Collier.

Izzy in the Doghouse
Izzy's Tail of Trouble (2022)
Izzy's Dog Days of Summer (2023)

Jasper John Dooley series

Star of the Week, illustrated by Ben Clanton (2012)
Left Behind, illustrated by Ben Clanton (2013)
Not in Love, illustrated by Ben Clanton (2014)
You're in Trouble, illustrated by Ben Clanton (2015)
Lost and Found, illustrated by Mike Shiell (2015)
Public Library Enemy #1, illustrated by Mike Shiell (2016)

Pierre & Paul series

The Pierre & Paul books are illustrated by Alice Carter.

Avalanche! (2020)
Dragon! (2021)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Jessop, Paula (2013-12-16). "Caroline Adderson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Adderson, Caroline 1963–". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
^ "Caroline Adderson". Simon Fraser University. Archived from the original on 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
^ "Caroline Adderson". The Banff Centre. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
^ "Shields in running for Governor General Award; Nomination comes just after Booker Prize loss". Halifax Daily News. 1993-10-29.
^ "Locals on longlist of nominees". The Telegram, September 12, 2006.
^ "2012 Longlist". Dublin Literary Award. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
^ "The longlist is revealed". The Sunday Times. 2013-01-23. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
^ "Canadian Library Association Announces Shortlist for 2013 Book of the Year for Children Award". Canadian Library Association. 2013-03-01. Archived from the original on 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
^ "Winners of the 2013 B.C. Book Prizes announced". The Georgia Straight. 2013-05-05. Archived from the original on 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2013-05-08.

Sources

W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 9.
Records of Caroline Adderson are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
Adderson at Writers' Union of Canada: CV, Publications, Awards