Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969.

elected bibliography

* "Waterloo Express" (1973)
* "Celestial Navigation" (1984, winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award)
* "The Golden Hawks (Where We Live)" (1985)
* "Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola" (1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
* "The Late Great Human Road Show" (1986, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
* "The Jesse James Poems" (1988)
* "Blackwater" (1988)
* "Song to the Rising Sun" (1989)
* "Cousins" (1992)
* "Flying Lesson: Selected Poems" (1995)
* "North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps" (1995)
* "Enemy Women" (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)

References

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004135 Paulette Jiles's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]


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