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Zsuzsi Gartner | |
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| Born | May 4, 1960 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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Zsuzsi Gartner (born at 4 May 1960 in Winnipeg) [1] is a Canadian author and journalist. She regularly writes for The Globe and Mail , the Vancouver Sun , Quill & Quire , Canadian Business , and Western Living. [1]
Gartner was born 4 May 1960, in Winnipeg [1] and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides.
Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night , Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight , Western Living and Canadian Business. She has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night and books editor for The Georgia Straight.
She is also a writer of short stories, which have appeared in a number of publications. She published a collection of these stories, All the Anxious Girls on Earth in 1999.
Gartner has been writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia and a member of the faculty at Banff Centre's Writing Studios. [1]
Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.
She also founded and directs Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, British Columbia. [2]
Gartner's work has brought her three Western Magazine Awards, including a Gold Award in 2003 for feature writing. [2] In 2005, she won the Canadian National Magazine Awards' Silver award for Fiction.
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives | Scotiabank Giller Prize | Shortlist | [1] [3] [2] |
| 2020 | The Beguiling | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Shortlist | [2] [4] [5] |
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