Bonnie Burnard

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Bonnie Burnard’s A Good House was the #1 bestseller in Canada and the winner of the 1999 Giller Prize. Casino & Other Stories won the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her first story collection, Women of Influence, published by Coteau Books in Regina, received the Commonwealth Best First Book Award. She is also the recipient of the Marian Engel Award, which honours a female author in mid-career.Born in Southern Ontario, Bonnie Burnard lived for many years in Regina and now lives in London, Canada, where she was recently writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario. She has been a guest lecturer at writing and literary conferences in South Africa, Sweden, Germany and England. Burnard’s stories have been included in many anthologies, among them: Stories by Canadian Women, (ed. Sullivan), Oxford, 1999; Mothers and Daughters, (ed. Manguel), Chronicle Books, 1997; Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literature, U.K., 1996; Spin on 2, Gleerups Forlag Press, Sweden, 1995; The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, (ed. Weaver/Atwood), 1995; Best Canadian Stories, (ed. Helwig/Helwig), 1992 and 1989, (Helwig/Martin), 1984.
AwardsGiller Prize, for A Good House, 1999. REAL AUDIO: BibliographyA Good House. Toronto: Harper Flamingo, A Phyllis Bruce Book, 1999. Stag Line: Stories by Men. Edited by Bonnie Burnard. Regina: Coteau Books, 1995. Casino and Other Stories. Toronto: HarperCollins, A Phyllis Bruce Book, 1994. Women of Influence. Regina: Coteau Books, 1988. The Old Dance: Love Stories of One Kind or Another. Edited by Bonnie Burnard. Regina: Coteau Books, 1986. Coming Attractions: Stories. By Sharon Butala, Bonnie Burnard and Sharon Sparling. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1983.
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