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A Cold War Childhood
| Author: | Ann Diamond |  |
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Ann Diamond Books: 1977 Lil, poetry, New Delta, Montreal, 49 pp. 1984, 1989 A Nun's Diary, poetry, Signal Editions, Montreal, 80 pp. 1988 Mona's Dance, novel, Quarry Press, Kingston, 220 pp. 1989 Snakebite, stories, Cormorant Editions, Dunvegan, 150 pp. 1992 Terrorist Letters, poetry, Signal Editions, Montreal, 55 pp. 1994 Evil Eye, stories, Vehicule, Montreal, 200 pp. Winner of QPELL's Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction. 2001 Dead White Males, novel, 270 pp, DC Books, Montreal. SELF-PUBLISHED 2005 Static Control, novel, 228 pp., DiamondBack Books, Montreal. 2007 My Cold War, memoir, 416 pp., DiamondBack Books, Montreal. 2009 A Certain Girl: A Cold War childhood, DiamondBack Books. PRIZES AND AWARDS Recipient of Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English Language Literature (QSPELL), 1994. Winner of the 1991 Event Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest for "Roads to Freedom" (a memoir). Mona's Dance (the apocalyptic adventures of a nightclub dancer) was featured on CBC's The Arts Tonight as the best small press book of 1988. A Nun's Diary, was adapted for theatre by director Robert Lepage. FREELANCE WRITING/ EDITING/ TRANSLATION 1979-2000 Articles in Geist, Matrix, Chatelaine, Flare, Ms., Canadian Forum, The Globe and Mail, The Gazette, Books in Canada, etc. Weekly Books columnist for the Montreal Gazette. Freelance editing for Tundra Books, the Government of Canada, Robin Palin PR, and others.Scripts, stories, guest appearances on local and national media including CBC Morningside, Home Run, Newswatch, Arttalks, Stereodrama. TRANSLATIONS: 2006 Poems/Poemes by Kiril Kadiiski, translated from French to English by Ann Diamond, Paris, L'Esprit des Peninsules, 792 pp. 2009 Alter Ego, poems by Kiril Kadiiski, translated by Ann Diamond, Sofia, Editions Nov Zlatorog PERIODICALS: "A Swim in Cholera Bay," essay, Geist Magazine, 2000 "Following Rain," travel essay, Geist, 2004 "An Awful Thing," essay, Carte Blanche and Geist, 2008 "Stranger Song: How I (Finally) Met Leonard Cohen," memoir, Geist, 2009 Book reviews, columns and articles for the Montreal Gazette, Books in Canada, Canadian Forum, etc. Education: B.A., History and English, Concordia University, Montreal, 1974. Graduate studies in fiction, Goddard College, Vermont, 1978 with Raymond Carver; and Concordia University, 1979, 1986 with Clark Blaise. Languages: spoken/written: French, English Working knowledge of German, modern Greek TEACHING: 2000-2002 Creative writing/ writer-in-residence, University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, BC. 1998-2000 Independent writing workshop, "Unlocking Your Stories". 1998-2000 Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) workshops in memoir and creative journal writing. 1992 Writer in Residence, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec. 1986-87 Lecturer in Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal. (Introductory and Advanced Fiction) 1988 Summer fiction workshops at St. Laurence College |
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