Gloria Sawai

Gloria Sawai (20 December 1932 – 20 July 2011), born Gloria Ruth Ostrem in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an American-born fiction author, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She died on 20 July 2011.[1]

Gloria Sawai
BornGloria Ruth Ostrem
(1932-12-20)20 December 1932
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died20 July 2011(2011-07-20) (aged 78)
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanada
Notable awardsGovernor General's Literary

In early childhood, she moved with her family to Saskatchewan, then in her youth to Alberta. Her father was a Lutheran minister.[2]

Education

Awards and recognition

  • fiction winner, Governor General's Award, A Song for Nettie Johnson, 2002
  • Danuta Gleed Literary Award: A Song for Nettie Johnson, Coteau Books, for the year 2001

Works

  • 1983: contributor, Three Times Five: Short Stories (NeWest) ISBN 0-920316-84-0
  • 2001: A Song for Nettie Johnson (Coteau) ISBN 1-55050-187-9
    • 2002 reissue: ISBN 1-55050-223-9
gollark: You can just not do that, and it'll interop perfectly with other things.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: The Rust ones are actually token stream → token stream.
gollark: Does anyone except GTech™ palaiologistic neural networks with several subjective decades of runtime actually *understand* C++?
gollark: Alternatively, random guessing, as the computers involved are quite fast.

References

  1. "GG Award-winning Edmonton author Gloria Sawai dies". Winnipeg Free Press. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  2. Babiak, Todd (23 July 2011). "City writer made everything strange and beautiful". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
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