Gowdy, Barbara

Barbara Gowdy is the award-winning author of Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman and Falling Angels, all of which have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the world. She has been nominated repeatedly for every major Canadian literary prize, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Governor General s Award, the Trillium Book Award (which she won for Helpless) and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. She also received the Marian Engel Award for her body of work. A member of the Order of Canada and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda...