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Audrey
Thomas

Years: 2002

Audrey Thomas was born in Binghamton, New York, and emigrated to Canada in 1959. She is the author of a number of highly praised novels, including, Intertidal Life, an obsessive introspection of a failed marriage, which was published in 1984 and nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Thomas has received three honours from the Writers’ Trust of Canada: the Marian Engel Award, the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize, and the Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life.

Audrey Thomas was born in Binghamton, New York, and emigrated to Canada in 1959. She is the author of a number of highly praised novels, including, Intertidal Life, an obsessive introspection of a failed marriage, which was published in 1984 and nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Thomas has received three honours from the Writers’ Trust of Canada: the Marian Engel Award, the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize, and the Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life.

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