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	Birdsell, Sandra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birdsell, Sandra, short story writer, novelist (b at Hamiota, Man 22 Apr 1942).
		The members of the Lafreniere family, portrayed in many of the stories, seek a contentment that eludes them in the fictional town of Agassiz, Man. Birdsell's female characters often feel trapped in the domestic sphere and in their roles as daughters, wives and mothers.
		In The Chrome Suite (1992), Birdsell's second novel, a scriptwriter reconstructs the events of her past in an effort to understand her life.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0010914 (228 words)

	University of Manitoba: Canadian Literature Archive - Biographies - Sandra Birdsell
		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.
		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.
		Birdsell has been invited to teach at the School of Fine Arts in Banff Alberta, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and as a Writer in Residence at the University of Waterloo, Alberta, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.
	www.umanitoba.ca /canlit/biographies/sandra_birdsell.shtml (1094 words)

	The Chrome Suite:Birdsell, Sandra:0771014538:eCampus.com
		The narrative moves from a small Manitoba town during one extraordinary hot summer at the close of the fifties when the death of Amy's sister changes everything, to the time when Amy marries, goes to live in the city, and begins to have reason to fear for her young son's well-being.
		Birdsell's haunting, almost tactile evocation of the dangerous territory of the past is infused with an uneasy nostalgia.
		Her unforgettable characters are portrayed as complex, fallible beings and, through them, she explores the private, sometimes cruel realm of relationships and the universal quest for an often elusive self-acceptance.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0771014538 (128 words)

	Welcome to the official website of author Sandra Birdsell \| Books
		Jury Citation for Giller Prize: "Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer evokes with artistic nobility the daily life among a Mennonite community in Russia at the beginning of the first world war, a war that tragically consumes their ordinary expectations and their lives in the cheap excesses and banality of murder.
		Sandra Birdsell probably couldn't have foreseen she was writing a book that can be described as timely....
		Sandra Birdsell's unforgettable characters are portrayed as complex, fallible beings and, through them, she explores the private, sometimes cruel realm of relationships and the universal quest for an often elusive self-acceptance.
	www.sandrabirdsell.com /books.htm (2438 words)

	Canadian Mennonite writer Sandra Birdsell to speak Nov. 21
		Birdsell describes the writing of this story as a journey of self-discovery and education.
		Birdsell’s first two books of short stories, “Night Travellers” and “Ladies of the House,” were published in 1982 and 1984 to critical acclaim.
		Birdsell grew up on the Manitoban prairie, though currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, and continues to be inspired by the people and landscapes of her homeland.
	www.goshen.edu /news/pressarchive/11-17-04-birdsell.html (474 words)

	Bethel College News: A story both Mennonite and universal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birdsell’s latest novel, published in Canada in 2001 as The Russlanders and in the United States this year as Katya, is set among Mennonites living in the steppes of Russia in the early 1900s, when the Russian Revolution literally tore apart families, churches and communities.
		Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba in 1942 and now lives in Regina, Sask. She did not begin writing fiction until mid-life, publishing her first book at age 40.
		Birdsell is a first-generation Canadian on the maternal side—her mother emigrated with her Mennonite family from Russia.
	www.bethelks.edu /news/archives/001490.php (643 words)

	The Globe and Mail: Mennonites. Métis. Massacre. Marvellous
		Birdsell has been publishing fiction to national acclaim for some 25 years, and all her gifts are on display here.
		Birdsell avoids this problem in Children of the Day, where she marries a character from her previous novel, a refugee Mennonite, to another displaced person and orphan, a Métis who sees the hypocrisy of thriving, godly farmers who apparently live for the next world.
		Birdsell structures her plot so we cannot forget the injustice and irony of that history.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20050915.bkbird0917/BNStory/SpecialEvents (985 words)

	JS Online: Talking with ... Sandra Birdsell
		Paul, Minn. - When Sandra Birdsell's mother grew old, she couldn't be left alone because she had nightmares about people coming through windows and into the attic of her senior citizens' complex.
		Birdsell's ancestors were Mennonites, a Protestant sect invited into Russia in the 18th century by Catherine the Great.
		Birdsell's novel was first published as "The Russlander" in Canada, where it was a bestseller.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/jan05/290973.asp (727 words)

	The Russlander
		In lucid, spellbinding prose, Birdsell vividly evokes time and place, and the unease between class and cultures that existed in a country on the brink of revolutionary change.
		Birdsell's book bears careful witness to not only the settling of many Canadian prairie farms, but to cultural and personal endurance within a diverse nation.
		Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba, and until recently spent most of her life in Winnipeg.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /Russlander.htm (982 words)

	McClelland and Stewart: The Reading Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In lucid, spellbinding prose, Birdsell vividly evokes time and place, and the unease that existed in a county on the brink of revolutionary change.
		Birdsell structures her story according to Katya's recollections of the 1910s in Russia.
		Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba and, until recently, has spent most of her life in Winnipeg.
	www.mcclelland.com /bookclubs/guide_russlander.html (2200 words)

	Sandra Birdsell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the age of thirty- seven years, Sandra had two children, a husband, a cat, a dog, three goldfish and a typewriter that she won in a contest.
		One day Sandra’s grandson came to her and said, "Grandma, would you please write a book for me?" And so she decided to write a novel for her grandchildren.
		Sandra Birdsell lives in Regina, Saskatchewan with her husband, and dog, Sheep.
	redcedar.swifty.com /1999/Author_Bios/sandra.htm (265 words)

	Welcome to the official website of author Sandra Birdsell
		In September, Sandra Birdsell will be reading and promoting the novel, Children of the Day, in Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
		Sandra Birdsell was nominated for the Giller Prize for her best-selling novel, The Russländer, in 2001.
		Sandra Birdsell is a member of P.E.N. International, The Writers Union of Canada, The Saskatchewan Writers Guild, The Manitoba Métis Federation, and is a founder and life-time member of the Manitoba Writers' Guild.
	www.sandrabirdsell.com (369 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Russländer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birdsell's portrayal of life under the terror of anarchy and political upheaval is riveting and vital, but only persistent readers will be able to enjoy these riches.
		Birdsell herself was born and raised in Manitoba, the 5th of 10 children and her family's origins trace back to Russia.
		Birdsell began writing in '82 at the age of 40.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771014511 (712 words)

	Saskatchewan Arts Board - Our Story
		She is the recipient of a Sterling Award (Edmonton) for her portrayal of Hagar in The Stone Angel, and was nominated for a Dora Award (Toronto) for Paper Wheat and a Betty Mitchell Award (Calgary) for her portrayal of Nana in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again.
		Sandra Birdsell began publishing in 1982 and has presently published four novels and three volumes of short stories.
		Birdsell has been presented with the Marian Engel Award, Canada's most prestigious prize given to a woman in mid-career.
	www.artsboard.sk.ca /story/story_connections_IAGC.shtml (1398 words)

	Welcome to the Sandra Birdsell Profile
		Novel and short story writer, Sandra Birdsell was born in Hamiota, Manitoba in 1942 and currently resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.
		Sandra has completed numerous courses in both Business Administration and the Arts at Red River College, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Winnipeg.
		Aside from writing, Sandra has worked as a homemaker, office manager, bookkeeper, facilitator, organizer, waitress and salesperson.
	www.mbwriter.mb.ca /mapindex/b_profiles/birdsell_s.html (413 words)

	International Readings at Harbourfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Sandra Birdsell "is one of our best writers - no compromises, no hesitance, a full canvas" (Michael Ondaatje).
		In writing her latest novel, The Russländer, Birdsell drew on the true experiences of her own relatives and her family's Russian origins.
		To research her story she made several trips to Ukraine, once travelling by converted barge down the Dnieper river from Kiev to Crimea with 200 Mennonite tourists.
	www.readings.org /bios/birdsell_s.htm (135 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Chrome Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandra Birdsell's award-winning novel The Chrome Suite tells the story of Amy Barber, who, after growing up in small-town Manitoba in the 1950s, flees to Winnipeg and an unsatisfying marriage before breaking out into a career as a successful screenwriter and filmmaker.
		However, Amy's career path is fraught with ennui and loss, and the latest tragedy to befall her only underlines her life's emptiness and fragility.
		“This novel has the power of all uncompromising fiction; Sandra Birdsell’s hard-edged, accurate prose and her unfailingly intelligent observations of the way people live are deeply...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771014554 (484 words)

	Berkley/Jove Authors: Sandra Landry
		She recalls spending countless hours as a child copying indecipherable loops and lines, marveling at their beauty and the wondrous secrets they held.
		It took her from her native country of Brazil to study in England and finally to reside in the USA where she has adopted New Orleans as her home, English as her language, and writing as her career.
		Sandra Landry's debut novel, A PERFECT LOVE, Jove 08/00, met with rave reviews and was the winner of the Golden Quill for Best First Book, a finalist of the Holt Medallion and Booksellers' Best.
	berkleyjoveauthors.com /author32 (164 words)

	The Russlander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You don’t get that nearly often enough, but in Sandra Birdsell’s work you do get it over and over again, and she has the energy, the faith, the skill, to make her stories overwhelm us.”
		“Birdsell’s voice is…rich with surprise and guileless wit… (She) deftly depicts four decades of an aimless, refreshingly unselfconscious life.” —
		Both intimate and deeply moving, The Russlander is a rich tapestry of lives and stories, a novel of friendship, betrayal, love, and loss, set in Russia during the years leading up to the First World War and the Russian Revolution, when a way of life came to a violent end.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /SaraandOliver.htm (1051 words)

	Of Mennonites and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Based upon author Sandra Birdsell’s own family history, The Russländer explores a Mennonite community in Russia during the early part of the twentieth century.
		A vast range of characters are joined together by friendship and family, only to find their relationships and lives torn apart during the violence of the Russian Revolution.
		Although Birdsell herself is not involved with the Mennonite community, she hopes that The Russländer will make more people aware of the story of how these Mennonites came to Canada as refugees.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/85491 (643 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Katya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		by Sandra Birdsell "SHE WOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER the awe, the swelling in her breast-bone when she'd first seen her name written, Lydia guiding her hand across a slate..." (more)
		On beginning this one, I was intrigued and surprised because rather than being invited in its pages into the worlds of native Russians or Ukrainians, I found myself stepping across the threshholds of German Mennonites living in Ukraine at the beginning of the last century: this is a world previously completely unknown to me.
		Birdsell's narrative style in "Katya" is marvelous, and I say this as someone who does not as a rule like stories told from the perspective of children, because most often they are clearly endowed with adult qualities.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1571310436?v=glance (949 words)

	Timbrel archives: MW Book Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set during the Russian Revolution, Sandra Birdsell’s novel, Katya (first released with the title, The Russlander), opens with a newspaper account of a massacre at an estate owned by the (fictional) Sudermann family.
		Marlene Epp: Sandra Birdsell is a well-known Canadian writer whose ancestral roots are with Russian Menno-nites and also with Manitoba Metis (aboriginal-French roots).
		Marlene: I also think Birdsell does a good job of portraying the growing civil discontent in the country and animosity towards Mennonites in their own areas, as well as demonstrating that Mennonites had different views of how to respond to WWI.
	www.mennonitewomenusa.org /MWbookclub.asp (5506 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Short Story: Birdsell, Sandra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandra Louise Birdsell · cached · Biography, selected publications, and awards.
		Canadian Literature Archive: Sandra Birdsell · cached · Bibliography, awards, and writing related experience.
		Sandra Birdsell · cached · Official site includes biography, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=67668 (61 words)

	Milkweed \| Catalog: Katya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Combining the sweep of the best historical novels with the immediacy of today’s newspaper headlines, Sandra Birdsell’s Katya vividly imagines one family’s life before and after revolution.
		Sandra Birdsell has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most important writers.
		A finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Marion Engel Award, Canada’s most prestigious award honoring women writers, Birdsell has published three collections of short fiction including Agassiz (Milkweed, 1991), three novels, a novel for children, radio and theater plays, and television and film scripts.
	www.milkweed.org /4_catalog/4_1_1_0436.html (509 words)

	Conrad Grebel Media Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		August 31, 2005 -Author Sandra Birdsell Pays Visit to Grebel While On Cross-Canada Book Tour
		Sandra Birdsell, author of The Russländer, will read from her new novel entitled Children of the Day at Conrad Grebel University College on Sunday, September 18 at 7 pm.
		The reading, which is free of charge, will take place in the College Chapel.
	grebel.uwaterloo.ca /aboutgrebel/releases.shtml (1758 words)

	Agassiz Stories by Sandra Birdsell
		“In twenty-three well-crafted, emotionally resonant stories focusing on nearly every family issue under the sun, Birdsell has woven past and present into a disturbingly honest portrait of small-town and suburban life.”
		“Like Alice Munro, Sandra Birdsell writes of the trials of family, and of the past that clings to us no matter what efforts we make to scour it from our bodies and souls.…Sandra Birdsell is here to stay.”
		“Birdsell writes with the kind of emotional and psychological honest that distinguishes Munro’s work.…She has good insight into family relationships and the alternating loyalty, duplicity, jealousy, treachery and compassion of its members.…By the final story, we feel we know this family as well as any other in Canadian fiction.…Birdsell has us well and truly hooked.”
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0771014643 (536 words)

	CAN-BIBlioCl5.html
		Special issue on Sandra Birdsell, including the McCormack interview, Birdsell's "The Birthday Party," 25-42 and three stories by other writers selected by Birdsell..
		Quennet, Fabienne C. "Gender Troubles in Sandra Birdsell's Short Story 'Judgement.'" In Ahornblatter: Marburger Beitrage zur Kanada-Forschung, ed.
		"Minnie Pullman and the Salvation of the Mennonite Church in Sandra Birdsell's
	www.goshen.edu /english/ervinb/bibliographies/can-biblio.html (3995 words)

	Dropped Threads
		Marjorie Anderson • Mary J. Breen • Sandra Martin • Jennifer L. Schulz • Alison Wearing
		Karen Houle • Ann Dowsett Johnston • Sandra Martin • Jennifer L. Schulz • Susan Swan
		Marjorie Anderson • Sandra Birdsell • Ingeborg Boyens • Maggie Dwyer • Pamela Mala Sinha • Linda Harlos • Jennifer L. Schulz • Faith Johnston • Wanda Wuttunee
	www.randomhouse.ca /features/droppedthreads/events.html (485 words)

	Welcome to Department of English, McMaster University
		We also have a successful Writer-in-Residence program, whereby established authors come to McMaster every year and work closely with our students on their creative writing.
		Recent Writers-in-Residence have included dramatist Daniel David Moses and novelist Sandra Birdsell.
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