Connie Gault

Connie Gault (born March 6, 1949) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer.^[1] She is best known for her novel A Beauty, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[2]

Background

Born Connie Hatley in Central Butte, Saskatchewan,^[1] she was raised in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta by parents in the Royal Canadian Air Force.^[1] Her family later settled back in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where she later married her husband Gordon Gault.^[1] They moved to Regina in 1974, where Connie Gault received a degree from the University of Regina in 1984.^[1]

Writing

Gault published her first short story in Grain in 1981.^[1] She has since published two volumes of short stories, as well as publishing stories in literary magazines and anthologies.^[1] Her debut short story collection Some of Eve's Daughters won a Saskatchewan Writers' Guild award, and her second collection Inspection of a Small Village won a City of Regina Book Award.^[1]

Her plays have been produced by theatre companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta,^[1] and have been broadcast on CBC Radio and the BBC World Service.^[1]

Her first novel Euphoria was published by Coteau Books in 2009, and won that year's Saskatchewan Book Award.^[1] A Beauty followed in 2015.

She was also a fiction editor of Grain in the 1990s.^[1]

Works

Short story collections

• Some of Eve's Daughters (1987)
• Inspection of a Small Village (1996)

Plays

• Sky (1989)
• The Soft Eclipse (1990)
• Otherwise Bob (1999)
• Red Lips (2002)

Novels

• Euphoria (2009)
• A Beauty (2015)

References