Audrey Thomas

Audrey Grace Thomas (née Callahan, born 17 November 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Born in Binginham, New York she immigrated to Canada in 1959, [Eugene Benson and William Toye, eds. "The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature." Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997. p. 1113.] where she attended and later taught at the University of British Columbia. From 1964 to 1966 she lived in Ghana, an experience which has had a deep impact on her work. In 1987 she won the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.

She has three times received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for "Intertidal Life" (1984), "Wild Blue Yonder" (1990), and "Coming Down from Wa" (1995). In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. [cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5447|title=Governor General Announces New Appointments to the Order of Canada]

Bibliography

Novels

*"Mrs. Blood" - 1970
*"Munchmeyer and Prospero on the Island" - 1971
*"Songs My Mother Taught Me" - 1973
*"Blown Figures" - 1974
*"Ladies and Escorts" - 1977
*"Latakia" - 1979
*"Intertidal Life" - 1984 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"Graven Images" - 1993
*"Coming Down from Wa" - 1995 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"Isobel Gunn" - 1999

hort stories

*"Ten Green Bottles" - 1967
*"Real Mothers" - 1981
*"Two in the Bush and Other Stories" - 1981
*"Goodbye Harold, Good Luck" - 1986
*"The Wild Blue Yonder" - 1990
*"The Path of Totality" - 2001
*"Tattycoram" - 2005

References

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007963 Audrey Thomas's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]