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Connie Gault
BornConnie Hatley
(1949-03-06) March 6, 1949 (age 75)
Central Butte, Saskatchewan
Occupationwriter
Nationality Canadian
Period1980s-present
Notable worksSky, Euphoria, A Beauty
SpouseGordon Gault

Connie Gault (born March 6, 1949) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. [1] She is best known for her novel A Beauty, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [2]

Background

Born Connie Hatley in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, [1] she was raised in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta by parents in the Royal Canadian Air Force. [1] Her family later settled back in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where she later married her husband Gordon Gault. [1] They moved to Regina in 1974, where Connie Gault received a degree from the University of Regina in 1984. [1]

Writing

Gault published her first short story in Grain in 1981. [1] She has since published two volumes of short stories, as well as publishing stories in literary magazines and anthologies. [1] Her debut short story collection Some of Eve's Daughters won a Saskatchewan Writers' Guild award, and her second collection Inspection of a Small Village won a City of Regina Book Award. [1]

Her plays have been produced by theatre companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta, [1] and have been broadcast on CBC Radio and the BBC World Service. [1]

Her first novel Euphoria was published by Coteau Books in 2009, and won that year's Saskatchewan Book Award. [1] A Beauty followed in 2015.

She was also a fiction editor of Grain in the 1990s. [1]

Works

Short story collections

  • Some of Eve's Daughters (1987)
  • Inspection of a Small Village (1996)

Plays

  • Sky (1989)
  • The Soft Eclipse (1990)
  • Otherwise Bob (1999)
  • Red Lips (2002)

Novels

  • Euphoria (2009)
  • A Beauty (2015)

References

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Connie Gault
BornConnie Hatley
(1949-03-06) March 6, 1949 (age 75)
Central Butte, Saskatchewan
Occupationwriter
Nationality Canadian
Period1980s-present
Notable worksSky, Euphoria, A Beauty
SpouseGordon Gault

Connie Gault (born March 6, 1949) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. [1] She is best known for her novel A Beauty, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [2]

Background

Born Connie Hatley in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, [1] she was raised in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta by parents in the Royal Canadian Air Force. [1] Her family later settled back in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where she later married her husband Gordon Gault. [1] They moved to Regina in 1974, where Connie Gault received a degree from the University of Regina in 1984. [1]

Writing

Gault published her first short story in Grain in 1981. [1] She has since published two volumes of short stories, as well as publishing stories in literary magazines and anthologies. [1] Her debut short story collection Some of Eve's Daughters won a Saskatchewan Writers' Guild award, and her second collection Inspection of a Small Village won a City of Regina Book Award. [1]

Her plays have been produced by theatre companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta, [1] and have been broadcast on CBC Radio and the BBC World Service. [1]

Her first novel Euphoria was published by Coteau Books in 2009, and won that year's Saskatchewan Book Award. [1] A Beauty followed in 2015.

She was also a fiction editor of Grain in the 1990s. [1]

Works

Short story collections

  • Some of Eve's Daughters (1987)
  • Inspection of a Small Village (1996)

Plays

  • Sky (1989)
  • The Soft Eclipse (1990)
  • Otherwise Bob (1999)
  • Red Lips (2002)

Novels

  • Euphoria (2009)
  • A Beauty (2015)

References


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