Canadian novelist and book reviewer
Joan Thomas on Bookbits radio. Joan Thomas (born 1949)[1] is a Canadian novelist and book reviewer from Winnipeg , Manitoba .
Thomas grew up in Carberry, Manitoba and later worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail , the Winnipeg Free Press and Prairie Fire , and as a book editor for Turnstone Press . She won a National Magazine Award in 1996 for her journalism.[2]
Thomas's debut novel Reading by Lightning won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean)[3] as well as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award .[4]
Her second novel, Curiosity, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize , the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award . Both novels were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award .[citation needed ]
Her third novel The Opening Sky (2014) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction , the Carol Shields Book Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. It won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and was named a CBC book of the year.[citation needed ]
In 2014, Thomas was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for a mid-career writer.[5]
In 2019, her novel Five Wives won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[6]
Bibliography [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Thomas, Joan (Sandra Joan)" . Manitoba Archival Information Network. Retrieved January 22, 2022 . ^ "Somewhere in the memory of the universe" in Prairie Fire vol. 16 no. 3 Archived 2020-04-05 at the Wayback Machine . Autumn, 1995. ^ "Western Canadian writers capture Commonwealth book awards" . cbc.ca , March 12, 2009. ^ "Thomas wins Amazon First Novel Award". The Globe and Mail , September 25, 2009. ^ "Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize" . Toronto Star , November 4, 2014. ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards" . CBC Books , October 29, 2019.
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Marian Engel Award (1986-2007) Timothy Findley Award (2002-2007) Engel/Findley Award (2008-present)
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