Dianne Warren

Dianne Warren
Dianne Warren
Born August 28, 1950 (1950-08-28) (age 61)
Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation Writer
Nationality Canadian
Notable work(s) Serpent in the Night Sky, Cool Water
Spouse(s) Bruce Anderson
Children 2 sons

Dianne Warren (born August 28, 1950 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer, who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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Background

Growing up in Saskatchewan, Warren attended the University of Regina where in 1976, she graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts. While at the University of Regina, Dianne Warren did some course work with writers such as Joan Givner and Ken Mitchell.[1]

After spending three years in rural northeastern Saskatchewan, Warren moved back to Regina in 1979, where she lives with her husband, visual artist Bruce Anderson, and their two sons.[1]

Career

Warren's first short story was published in 1982 in the anthology Saskatchewan Gold. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies such as The Old Dance, Fire Beneath the Cauldron and Concrete Forest.[1] Her short story collections include The Wednesday Flower Man (1987), Bad Luck Dog (1993) and A Reckless Moon (2002).

Plays

  • Serpent in the Night Sky was a finalist for the 1992 Governor General's Award for Drama
  • The Last Journey of Captain Harte was published in 1999
  • Club Chernobyl was published in 1994 and won the City of Regina Book Award

All three plays premiered at Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre and were all directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher.

Warren also wrote several dramatic works for CBC Radio.[1]

Awards

Bad Luck Dog won three Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year.

Warren also won the National Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and the Western Magazine Award for Fiction. She won the Marian Engel Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada in 2004.

She published her first novel, Cool Water, in 2010. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards,[2] and was also long-listed for the Giller prize.

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