- Darlene Quaife
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Darlene Alice Quaife (née Barry) (born 1 September 1948 Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist. Her first novel, Bone Bird, won a 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, for Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean.[1]
Quaife was educated at the University of Alberta, from which she received a Master of Arts degree in 1986.[2] She was President of the Writers' Guild of Alberta, and a Director of the Wordfest: Banff Calgary International Writers Festival. She lives in Priddis, Alberta.[3]
Selected bibliography
- Bone Bird, Turnstone Press, 1989, ISBN 9780888011336
- Days and Nights on the Amazon, Turnstone Press, 1994, ISBN 9780888011831
- Death Writes: A Curious Notebook - 1997; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, ISBN 9781551520384
- Polar Circus, Turnstone Press, 2001, ISBN 0888012535
References
- ^ George Melnyk (1999). The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century. University of Alberta. ISBN 9780888643247. http://books.google.com/books?id=IzxkKWp99CQC&pg=PA39&dq=Darlene+Quaife+alberta#v=onepage&q=Darlene%20Quaife%20alberta&f=false.
- ^ https://era.library.ualberta.ca/public/view/item/uuid:8dd6e905-2e6a-465f-bba2-374466cccd88
- ^ http://www.arsenalpulp.com/contributorinfo.php?index=59
Categories:- 1948 births
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- Canadian novelists
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