Donna Morrissey

Donna Morrissey (born in 1956 at The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.

At age 16 Morrissey left her birthplace, The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places of Canada before returning to St. John's where she studied at Memorial University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Social Work, and a diploma in adult education. Morrissey now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Morrissey has written three prize-winning novels — Kit's Law, the national best seller Downhill Chance, and Sylvanus Now — as well as one prize-winning screenplay.

Morrissey defended Frank Parker Day's novel Rockbound in Canada Reads 2005. Rockbound eventually won the competition. In the 2007 edition of Canada Reads, an "all-star" competition pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against each other, Morrissey returned to champion Anosh Irani's novel The Song of Kahunsha.

Bibliography

• Kit's Law
• Downhill Chance
• Sylvanus Now
• What They Wanted

Filmography

• Clothesline Patch (screenplay)

Awards and recognition

• For Sylvanus Now:
  • Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award
  • Atlantic Booksellers Choice Award
  • Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
• For Downhill Chance:
  • Winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award
• For Kit's Law:
  • Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
  • Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
  • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
  • Shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • Shortlisted for the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers' Choice Award
  • Shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Award
• For Clothesline Patch:
  • Winner, Best Production, 2002 Gemini Awards

External links

• Author page at Penguin Canada
• Donna Morrissey's web page
• Donna Morrissey's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Donna Morrissey at the Internet Movie Database
• Online interview from CBC Words at Large

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