Zsuzsi Gartner
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Zsuzsi Gartner | |
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| Born | May 4, 1960 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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Zsuzsi Gartner (born at 4 May 1960 in Winnipeg)[1] is a Canadian author and journalist. She regularly writes for The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Quill & Quire, Canadian Business, and Western Living.[1]
Biography
[edit]Gartner was born 4 May 1960, in Winnipeg[1] and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides.
Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, Western Living and Canadian Business. She has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night and books editor for The Georgia Straight.
She is also a writer of short stories, which have appeared in a number of publications. She published a collection of these stories, All the Anxious Girls on Earth in 1999.
Gartner has been writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia and a member of the faculty at Banff Centre's Writing Studios.[1]
Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.
She also founded and directs Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, British Columbia.[2]
Awards and honours
[edit]Gartner's work has brought her three Western Magazine Awards, including a Gold Award in 2003 for feature writing.[2] In 2005, she won the Canadian National Magazine Awards' Silver award for Fiction.
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives | Scotiabank Giller Prize | Shortlist | [1][3][2] |
| 2020 | The Beguiling | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Shortlist | [2][4][5] |
Bibliography
[edit]- All the Anxious Girls on Earth (1999)
- Darwin's Bastards (2009) – editor
- Better Living Through Plastic Explosives (2011)
- The Beguiling (2020)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Jessop, Paula (15 December 2013). "Zsuzsi Gartner". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Zsuzsi Gartner". Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ John Barber (5 October 2011). "Generation Giller: New young writers dominate Canada's richest fiction prize". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
- ^ Takeuchi, Craig (19 September 2020). "Gil Adamson, Jessica J. Lee win Writers' Trust literary prizes". Now. Archived from the original on 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Thomas King, Gil Adamson among finalists for $50K Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star. 6 October 2020. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
External links
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- Living people
- Canadian women journalists
- Journalists from Alberta
- Journalists from Manitoba
- Writers from Calgary
- Writers from Winnipeg
- Carleton University alumni
- University of Calgary alumni
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Canadian women short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 1960 births