Shree Ghatage (born 1957) is a Canadian writer. She was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1983, settling in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has won three awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition. [1]
Her written works share a common theme, describing life in India based on her own memories and experiences. Ghatage's first book, Awake When All the World is Asleep (1997), a collection of short stories set in Bombay, was awarded the Thomas Head Raddall Award. [2]
At the time of publication of her third book, Thirst (2012), Ghatage lived in Calgary, Alberta. [3]
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.
Bernice Morgan is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland. She is best known for her novel "Random Passage" which became a television mini-series on CBC.
Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000.
Donna Morrissey is a Canadian author.
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey is a Canadian writer and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Carol Bruneau is a Canadian writer.
Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Alison Pick is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Far to Go, and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35.
Anne Simpson is a Canadian poet, novelist, artist and essayist. She was a recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University. He has been page editor of The Telegram in St. John's, as well as a columnist and magazine writer.
Mary Dalton is a Canadian poet and educator.
Kathleen Winter is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist.
Annabel is a 2010 novel by Canada-based author Kathleen Winter.
Margaret Eleanor Anne Hart was a Canadian author who specialized in biographies. She was best known for her Agatha Christie character biographies: The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple and The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot, and for her role as head of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies from 1976 until her retirement on January 1, 1998. In 2004, Hart was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her "lasting contributions to the cultural life of her province."
Megan Gail Coles is a Canadian writer in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017.
Sharon Bala is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ed Kavanagh is a Canadian writer residing in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. He is also a musician, theatre director, actor, and university lecturer. His first novel, The confessions of Nipper Mooney, won the 2002 Newfoundland Book Award.
Carmelita McGrath is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She writes poetry, children's literature, and novels. She has also written short stories and has received awards for her writings. Along with writing, McGrath is also an editor, teacher, researcher, and communications consultant.