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	The Writers' Trust of Canada
		The Marian Engel Award was established by the Writers' Trust to honour the memory of one of Canada's most beloved and respected writers.
		Marian Engel won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 1976 for her novel, Bear, and was the first chair of the Writers' Union of Canada in 1973-74.
		The award is presented once a year to a female Canadian writer, not for a single book, but for a body of work and in anticipation of her future contribution to Canadian literature.
	www.writerstrust.com /programs_apa_marianengel.html (85 words)

	Canadian Books & Authors: Marian Engel
		Marian Engel (nee Passmore) was born on 24 May 1933 in Toronto, Ontario.
		She studied at McMaster University and wrote her Masters thesis, "The Canadian Novel, 1921-55", in 1957 at McGill University under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan.
		She married Howard Engel in 1962, divorced him seventeen years later, and died 16 February 1985.
	www.famouscanadians.net /books/e/engelmarian (89 words)

	Marian Engel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marian Engel (May 24, 1933–February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist whose feminist approach made her one of Canada's foremost modern writers.
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear which won the Governor General's Award that year.
		After Engel's death in 1985, the Writer's Development Trust of Canada instituted the Marian Engel Award, which is presented annually to a woman writer in mid-career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marian_Engel (230 words)

	Marian Engel Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Marian Engel Award is presented each year by the Writers' Trust of Canada in memory of the Canadian writer Marian Engel.
		The award goes to a female Canadian novelist who is in the middle of her career.
		In 2003, the Writer's Trust instituted a companion award, the Timothy Findley Award, to honour male writers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marian_Engel_Award (100 words)

	Timothy Findley Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The award goes to a male Canadian novelist who is in the middle of his career.
		The award was presented for the first time in 2003, although its first winner was deemed to have won for 2002.
		It is a companion to the Marian Engel Award, which was created in 1986 to honour female writers.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy+Findley+Award (122 words)

	Marian Engel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Marian Engel (May 24, 1933 – February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist whose feminist approach made her one of Canada's foremost modern writers.
		Born Marian Searle, she was educated at McMasterUniversity and McGill University, where she wrote her Mastersthesis on the English Canadian novel, under the supervision of HughMacLennan.
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bearwhich won the Governor-General's Award that year.She also wrote a number of children's books.
	www.therfcc.org /marian-engel-64696.html (199 words)

	Marian Engel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Marian Engel (May 24, 1933—February 16, 1985) was a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian novelist whose (A supporter of feminism) feminist approach made her one of Canada's foremost modern writers.
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a (Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws) bear which won the (Click link for more info and facts about Governor General's Award) Governor General's Award that year.
		After Engel's death in 1985, the Writer's Development Trust of Canada instituted the (Click link for more info and facts about Marian Engel Award) Marian Engel Award, which is presented annually to a woman writer in mid-career.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Marian_Engel.htm (291 words)

	Jane Urquhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1994 Urquhart also received the Marian Engel Award for an outstanding body of prose written by a Canadian woman.
		In 1997 Urquhart was asked to serve on the jury for this award.
		Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the presidential writer-in-residence fellowship at the University of Toronto.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jane_Urquhart (385 words)

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		Her books have won a Canada Council Major Award, two National Magazine Awards, the 1990 Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Author's Award, and a CBC short story award.
		It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1993 Booker Prize and was also named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and a "Notable Book" by The New York Times Book Review.
		Her last novel, Unless, was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Booker Prize and the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/c/ca/carol_shields.html (416 words)

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		Established by the Writers' Trust of Canada in honour of author Marian Engel; the award is given annually to a female Canadian writer in mid-career for a body of work in anticipation of her future contribution
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	www.penguin.ca /static/cs/cn/0/nf_browseawards.html (1683 words)

	Great Literary honours for Munro, Newman \| Aging information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And Howard Engel, author of the Benny Cooperman mystery series, won the Matt Cohen award of $20,000 for his body of work, which includes a new book written after he suffered a stroke a few years ago and lost the ability to read.
		Engel, who's in his 70s, said Cohen, who died in 1999 soon after winning a Governor General's literary award, was a neighbour and they used to run into each other at a bakery in downtown Toronto.
		Engel's Memory Book, which is being published later this month, is about lead character Cooperman's recovery from a serious blow to the head, and his quest to find out how he ended up in a dumpster with a brain injury.
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	Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Alberta Book Awards - recognize excellence in writing and publishing within the province of Alberta, Canada, and are presented annually in two sections: publishing awards by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, and writing awards by the Writers Guild of Alberta
		Marian Engel Award - awarded each year to a female Canadian writer in mid-career for her body of work
		Trillium Book Award - open to books published anywhere in the world in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children’s books, and poetry; and whose authors are Canadian citizens or landed immigrants who have lived in Ontario for at least three out of the past five years
	www.innvista.com /culture/literature/awards/canada.htm (330 words)

	Fame and Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Description: Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-- Awarded to an author under 35 years of age who has not been previously published in book form.
		Marian Engel Award-- Presented to a female writer for an outstanding body of work and continued contribution to the literary arts in Canada.
		The Writers' Trust of Canada's Timothy Findley Award -- Awarded to a Canadian male writer in recognition of a body of work comprised of no less than three works of literary merit which are predominantly fiction.
	www.sources.com /fandf/fandf180.htm (319 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Timothy Findley
		Three other $15,000 awards will be handed out with no short list: the Marian Engel Award to a female writer in mid-career, for a body of work; the Timothy Findley Award to a male writer in mid-career; and the Vicky Metcalf Award for children's literature.
		The $15,000 Marian Engel Award, awarded to a female writer in mid-career for a body of work, was given to Elisabeth Harvor, whose works include Excessive Joy Injures the Heart and Let Me Be the One.
		Saskatoon novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe, who was not present, received the Timothy Findley award for a male writer at mid-career; poet and novelist Elisabeth Harvor of Ottawa got the Marian Engel award for a mid-career woman writer; and Roslyn Schwartz of Montreal received the Vicky Metcalf award for children's literature.
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Timothy_Findley_Book.html (857 words)

	Alice Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.
		In 1986 she was awarded the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.
		The Moons of Jupiter 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
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	Cormorant Books: About
		These twenty-nine titles represent many of the 100+ award nominations and 70+ wins which have accrued to the Cormorant list through the talents of our diverse writers.
		Choosing nominees for these awards from among the many excellent books published every year must be as difficult as picking the lead title for a Cormorant catalogue.
		At Cormorant, we’re dedicated to building a national literature; that cultural activity means finding new voices, maintaining established voices, and ensuring that important voices from our literary past aren’t lost.We believe that this catalogue represents the results of seventeen years of this work.
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	Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award - Alice Munro
		She is the first Canadian to receive the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the Rea Award for lifetime achievement in short stories.
		The 2001 Rea Award jurors Maureen Howard, James Salter and Edmund White wrote: "For many years the Canadian writer Alice Munro has astonished her readers with stories that are magical and wise.
		The magic is in her art as a storyteller, in her exquisitely modulated prose -- lyrical, exacting, at time comical -- which captures the lives of her charatcers, both women and men, attempting to understand their personal histories in the larger sweep of history.
	www.bcbookworld.com /terasen/alicemunro.html (896 words)

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	Vicky Metcalf Award -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The award was named after Vicky Metcalf, a (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto (A professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services) librarian.
		The award has been presented annually since 1963.
		In 2002, the award was suspended by the Canadian Authors Association, and taken over by the (Click link for more info and facts about Writers' Trust of Canada) Writers' Trust of Canada.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Vicky_Metcalf_Award.htm (257 words)

	Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award - Audrey Thomas
		As well, she has received the $15,000 W.O. Mitchell Award (2001), the Marian Engel Award (1987), the $3,000 Canada-Australia Prize (1989), the Canada-Scotland Literary Fellowship (1985-86) and a National Magazine Award.
		She was twice shortlisted for Governor-General's Awards for fiction and has received three prizes from CBC Literary Competitions.
		The female protagonist in her most recent novel, Isobel Gunn, is based on an historical figure from the Orkney Islands who disguised herself as a man in 1806 and signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company to work in Rupert's Land, concealing her identity for a year and a half.
	www.bcbookworld.com /terasen/audreythomas.html (584 words)

	Katherine Govier : Press Kit
		In 1997 she received the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, and in 1998 she was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Alberta.
		Distinguished Alumni Award, the University of Alberta, 1998
		Marian Engel Award (for a woman writer in mid-career), 1997
	www.govier.com /presskit.htm (753 words)

	BC Book Prizes: Raincoast Books
		This award, administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada is presented each year to a female Canadian writer for an existing body work and the anticipation of future contributions to Canadian literature.
		The award, named for one of Canada’s most beloved female writers, comes with a cash prize of $15,000, and was presented in a gala ceremony last night in Toronto.
		She has received numerous award nominations for her writing, including the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 1993 and 2002 and a Governor General’s Award for her playwriting.
	www.raincoast.com /press-releases/2005/0310-writers-trust.html (380 words)

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	Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		First awarded in 1976, and suspended as of 1995, this prize ($3,000 and a 4-week author's tour of the other country) is intended to familiarize the reading audience of each sponsoring country with the writers of the other.
		Launched by the Canadian Authors Association and administered by the CAA until 1971, the awards were at first non-monetary prizes; the prestige of the prizes was complemented by a small cash award of $250 in 1951, to be increased in 1966 to $2,500, in 1975 to $5,000, and in 1989 to $10,000.
		Awarded, variously, for excellence in poetry, prose, and drama, as well as for young writers; the last year of presentation was 1995.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm (8100 words)

	Welcome to the Carol Shields Profile
		A former Winnipeg, Manitoba resident, she held the positions of Lecturer and Professor of English at the University of Manitoba, and the post of Chancellor at the University of Winnipeg.
		In her honour, The city of Winnipeg established The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, which was given out for the first time at Brave New Words: the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards ceremony in the year 2000.
		Carol is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada and the United States and was awarded the order of Canada in 1999.
	www.mbwriter.mb.ca /mapindex/s_profiles/shields_c.html (632 words)

	University of Manitoba: Canadian Literature Archive - Biographies - Sandra Birdsell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Birdsell is the recipient of Canada Council B Grants and Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Awards, the Robert Kroetsch Scholarship which enabled her to study creative writing with the author Jack Hodgins at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts.
		She was awarded the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award for her book, "Night Travellers," and a National Magazine Award for her story, "Falling In Love." In 1986 Birdsell was chosen by the Canadian Book Information Centre as one of 10 authors below the age of 45 whose work is the most promising.
		In 1992 Birdsell received the Joseph B Staufer Award from the Canada Council for "meritorious Achievement in the Arts." In 1992 her second novel, "The Chrome Suite," was nominated for The Governor Generals Award and received the McNally Robinson award for best book published in 1992.
	www.umanitoba.ca /canlit/biographies/sandra_birdsell.shtml (1094 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart
		Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award, and has been named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.
		She was also the 2003 recipient of Alberta's Bob Edwards Award.
		Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0771086636 (258 words)

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