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Canadian writer
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Audrey Grace Callahan
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Female
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Birth:
17 November 1935(Binghamton)
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Biography
Introduction
Audrey Grace Thomas, OC (née Callahan, born 17 Nov 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.
Biography
Born in Binghamton, New York she immigrated to Canada in 1959, where she attended and later taught at the University of British Columbia. From 1964 to 1966 she lived in Ghana, an experience which has had a deep impact on her work. In 1987 she won the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.
She has three times received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Intertidal Life (1984), Wild Blue Yonder (1990), and Coming Down from Wa (1995). In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.