Connie Gault

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Connie Gault
BornConnie Hatley
(1949-03-06) March 6, 1949 (age 74)
Central Butte, Saskatchewan
Occupationwriter
Nationality Canadian
Period1980s-present
Notable worksSky, Euphoria, A Beauty
SpouseGordon Gault

Connie Gault (born March 6, 1949) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. [1] She is best known for her novel A Beauty, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. [2]

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Background

Born Connie Hatley in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, [1] she was raised in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta by parents in the Royal Canadian Air Force. [1] Her family later settled back in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where she later married her husband Gordon Gault. [1] They moved to Regina in 1974, where Connie Gault received a degree from the University of Regina in 1984. [1]

Writing

Gault published her first short story in Grain in 1981. [1] She has since published two volumes of short stories, as well as publishing stories in literary magazines and anthologies. [1] Her debut short story collection Some of Eve's Daughters won a Saskatchewan Writers' Guild award, and her second collection Inspection of a Small Village won a City of Regina Book Award. [1]

Her plays have been produced by theatre companies in Saskatchewan and Alberta, [1] and have been broadcast on CBC Radio and the BBC World Service. [1]

Her first novel Euphoria was published by Coteau Books in 2009, and won that year's Saskatchewan Book Award. [1] A Beauty followed in 2015.

She was also a fiction editor of Grain in the 1990s. [1]

Works

Short story collections

Plays

Novels

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Connie Gault at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. "Scotiabank Giller Prize jury delivers surprising longlist". Quill & Quire , September 9, 2015.