Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Ann-Marie MacDonald (born 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.

MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, "Fall on Your Knees", which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.

She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)".

She also appeared in the films "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" and "Better Than Chocolate", among others.

Her 2003 novel, "The Way the Crow Flies", was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case.

She also hosted the CBC Documentry series "Life and Times" from 1996 to 2007.

MacDonald's partner is playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer. [cite web
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Works

* "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" - 1988 play
* "The Arab's Mouth" - 1990 (play)
* "Nigredo Hotel" - 1992 (opera libretto)
* "The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls" - 1995 (play)
* "Fall on Your Knees" - 1996 (novel)
* "Anything That Moves" - 2000 (book and lyrics for musical)
* "The Way the Crow Flies" - 2003 (novel, shortlisted for the Giller Prize)
* "Belle Moral" - 2004 (play)

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009743 Ann-Marie MacDonald's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531612/ Ann-Marie MacDonald's] entry in [http://www.imdb.com IMDb]

ee also

* List of Canadian writers
* List of Canadian playwrights

References