Gloria Sawai

American-born fiction author, based in Canada (1932 – 2011)

Gloria Sawai
Born	Gloria Ruth Ostrem (1932-12-20)20 December 1932 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	20 July 2011(2011-07-20) (aged 78) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian
Notable awards	Governor General's Literary

Gloria Sawai (20 December 1932 – 20 July 2011), born Gloria Ruth Ostrem in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an American-born fiction author, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She died on 20 July 2011.^[1]

In early childhood, she moved with her family to Saskatchewan, then in her youth to Alberta. Her father was a Lutheran minister.^[2]

Education

1948: Camrose Lutheran College (today the University of Alberta Augustana Faculty) (Camrose, Alberta).
- October 2003: Received Distinguished Alumni Award
1953: Bachelor of Arts, Augsburg College (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
1977: Master of Fine Arts, University of Montana (Missoula, Montana)

Awards and recognition

fiction winner, Governor General's Award, A Song for Nettie Johnson, 2002
Danuta Gleed Literary Award: A Song for Nettie Johnson, Coteau Books, for the year 2001

Works

1983: contributor, Three Times Five: Short Stories (NeWest) ISBN 0-920316-84-0
2001: A Song for Nettie Johnson (Coteau) ISBN 1-55050-187-9
- 2002 reissue: ISBN 1-55050-223-9

References

^ "GG Award-winning Edmonton author Gloria Sawai dies". Winnipeg Free Press. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
^ Babiak, Todd (23 July 2011). "City writer made everything strange and beautiful". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.

External links

Coteau Books: author profiles, including Gloria Sawai, Retrieved 17 July 2006
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Gloria Sawai, Retrieved 17 July 2006
"Augustana University College: 2003" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2006. (926 KiB), p. 8 "Sawai will be special guest", Retrieved 17 July 2006
Rang, Lloyd (July–August 2003). "A Song for Nettie and a Stretch for Some". Faith Today. Archived from the original on 5 April 2005. Retrieved 17 July 2006.

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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

1930s

Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936)
Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)
Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938)
Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)

1940s

Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)

1950s

Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
David Walker, Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)

1960s

Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962)
Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963)
Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964)
[no award] (1965)
Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)
[no award] (1967)
Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)

1970s

Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)

1980s

George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)

1990s

Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)

2000s

Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)

2010s

Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)

2020s

Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020)
Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021)
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022)
Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023)

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