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Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.
Apr 2, 2008 · Barbara Gowdy, novelist, short-story writer (b at Windsor, Ont 25 Jun 1950). Barbara Gowdy grew up in Don Mills, a Toronto suburb, and attended York University ...
Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have met with widespread international acclaim.
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Barbara Gowdy is a novelist and short-story writer who has been nominated three times for The Giller Prize and The Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, twice for The Governor General’s Award, and once for The Booker Prize.
Jun 30, 2017 · In Barbara Gowdy’s novel “Little Sister,” a flash of lightning temporarily transports a woman into a fascinating new self.
Barbara Gowdy. The Canadian writer’s novels and short-stories combine the strange and the everyday. She was longlisted for The Romantic, her tale of a lifelong, and unrequited, fixation. According to Carol Shields, herself a Booker Prize nominee (1993), Gowdy ‘writes like an angel’.
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May 23, 2017 · Barbara Gowdy and Helen Phillips are masterful investigators of the what-if. In their award-winning fiction, they dip into the surreal and the speculative just enough to tell the truth—about the strangeness of our present world, the permeability of the psyche, and what binds us as humans.
