Anita Daher is an author, screenwriter, producer, show host and actor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] She has worked in book publishing since 1995 and has published in print, audio and e-book format in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She is also an actor on stage and screen. In 2020, she began to produce and host an author interview series called Made in Manitoba: Stories from Home airing on Shaw Winnipeg's community access channel, as well as the YouTube Channel, Made in Manitoba Book TV.
Anita Daher | |
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 Anita Daher in 2009 | |
| Born | Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| Occupation | Author |
Daher was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, where she spent her childhood and the first two decades of her adult years moving every few years from one part of the country to the next. This wandering may have influenced her writing style. She has become known for bringing a strong sense of place into her stories. She feels that what she really writes about is "connection".
Daher sat as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada from 2019-2021, the first two-year term Chair in the Union's history.
Bibliography edit
- Flight from Big Tangle (2002)
- Flight from Bear Canyon (2004)
- Racing for Diamonds (2007)
- Spider's Song (2007)
- Two Foot Punch (2007)
- Poachers in the Pingos (2008)
- On the Trail of the Bushman (2009)
- The Wilderness Cure (2012)
- Wager the Wonder Horse (2013)
- The Hustle (2013)
- Itty Bitty Bits (2013)
- Wonder Horse (2015)
- Forgetting How to Breathe (2018)
- You Don't Have to Die in the End (2020[2])
- Peanut Butter and Chaos (2022)[1]
- Peanut Butter ans Pandemonium (2023)
Awards edit
- Winner, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising New Writer, 2007[3]
- Finalist, Spider's Song, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008[4]
- Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008[4]
- Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Hackmatack Award, 2009[5]
- Long List, Mime, CBC Literary Prize, 2017 [6]
- Finalist, Forgetting How to Breathe, IODE Violet Downey Book Award, 2019 [7]
- Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Forest of Reading White Pine Award, 2021 [8]
- Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Manitoba Book Award, Best YA Novel, 2021 [9]
References edit
- ^ a b "Member Profile".
- ^ "You Don't Have to die in the End | CM: Canadian Review of Materials".
- ^ The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer Archived 4 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Aqua Books Writer in Residence Program
- ^ Association of Canadian Publishers [permanent dead link]
- ^ "28 writers make the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize longlist | CBC Books".
- ^ "IODE Violet Downey Book Award 2019 - Short List - IODE Canada". Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Here are the 2021 White Pine Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in Grades 9-12 | CBC Books".
- ^ McNally Robinson Books for Young People (Older Category)
