Marion Quednau (born 1952) is a Canadian author, poet and children's writer who lives in British Columbia. [1] Her novel, The Butterfly Chair, won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award. [2]
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at the University of Toronto. [3] She subsequently moved to Western Canada, working for the Winnipeg Free Press and later for the feminist magazine Branching Out before settling in British Columbia. [3]
She published the poetry collection Kissing: Selected Chronicles in 1999, for which she won the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Award. [4] Her 2009 poem "Paradise, Later Years" won a gold medal for The Malahat Review , as well as winning the poetry category in the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2010. [5] It was later the title poem for her second poetry collection, Paradise, Later Years (2018). [6]
She has also published the children's novel The Gift of Odin (2007), [7] and the short story collection Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road (2021). [8] Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022. [9]