Marion Quednau
Canadian author, poet and children's writer
Marion Quednau (born 1952) is a Canadian author, poet and children's writer who lives in British Columbia.[1] Her novel, The Butterfly Chair, won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award.[2]
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at the University of Toronto.[3] She subsequently moved to Western Canada, working for the Winnipeg Free Press and later for the feminist magazine Branching Out before settling in British Columbia.[3]
She published the poetry collection Kissing: Selected Chronicles in 1999, for which she won the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Award.[4] Her 2009 poem "Paradise, Later Years" won a gold medal for The Malahat Review, as well as winning the poetry category in the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2010.[5] It was later the title poem for her second poetry collection, Paradise, Later Years (2018).[6]
She has also published the children's novel The Gift of Odin (2007),[7] and the short story collection Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road (2021).[8] Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022.[9]
Notes
- ^ Rod Currie, "Mission woman wins book prize". Vancouver Sun, April 2, 1988.
- ^ H. J. Kirchhoff, "Butterfly Chair soars into winner's circle". The Globe and Mail, April 1, 1988.
- ^ a b Ken Adachi, "Quednau takes award with stirring first novel". Toronto Star, April 3, 1988.
- ^ "Trio of poets kick off Blue Moon Series". Abbotsford News, August 3, 2006.
- ^ Christina Toth, "Mission's Quednau wins national prize". Abbotsford Times, June 18, 2010.
- ^ Michael Gurney, "Playhouse seeks to fill board gaps: Art Beat". The Coast Reporter, April 29, 2022.
- ^ Amy Ma, "Pet lovers will love Tammy and her pig: The Gift of Odin". Toronto Star, March 22, 2007.
- ^ Rik Jespersen, "New story collection a finely crafted set". The Coast Reporter, September 9, 2021.
- ^ "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 9, 2022.
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Winners of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Ian McLachlan and Michael Ondaatje (1977)
- Oonah McFee (1978)
- Joan Barfoot (1979)
- Clark Blaise (1980)
- W. D. Valgardson (1981)
- Joy Kogawa (1982)
- W. P. Kinsella (1983)
- Heather Robertson (1984)
- Geoffrey Ursell (1985)
- Wayne Johnston (1986)
- Karen Lawrence (1987)
- Marion Quednau (1988)
- Rick Salutin (1989)
- Sandra Birdsell (1990)
- Nino Ricci (1991)
- Rohinton Mistry (1992)
- John Steffler (1993)
- Deborah Joy Corey (1994)
- Shyam Selvadurai (1995)
- Keath Fraser (1996)
- Anne Michaels (1997)
- Margaret Gibson (1998)
- André Alexis (1999)
- David Macfarlane and Alan R. Wilson (2000)
- Eva Stachniak (2001)
- Michael Redhill (2002)
- Mary Lawson (2003)
- Michel Basilières (2004)
- Colin McAdam (2005)
- Joseph Boyden (2006)
- Madeleine Thien (2007)
- Gil Adamson (2008)
- Joan Thomas (2009)
- Jessica Grant (2010)
- Eleanor Catton (2011)
- David Bezmozgis (2012)
- Anakana Schofield (2013)
- Wayne Grady (2014)
- Alix Hawley (2015)
- Mona Awad (2016)
- Katherena Vermette (2017)
- Michael Kaan (2018)
- Casey Plett (2019)
- Stéphane Larue (2020)
- Michelle Good (2021)
- Pik-Shuen Fung (2022)
- Jasmine Sealy (2023)
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