Annette Lapointe

Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Stolen was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Manitoba.[1]

Annette Lapointe
Born1978 (age 42–43)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater
Notable worksStolen (2006)

Stolen also won two awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards, for best first novel and the Saskatoon Book Award,[2] and was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[3] Lapointe was also named Emerging Writer of 2007 by the Canadian Authors Association.[4]

Her second novel, Whitetail Shooting Gallery, was published in 2013.

Other

Annette Lapointe became a reviewer at New York Journal of Books in 2018[5]

References
  1. Annette Lapointe author profile at Anvil Press.
  2. Saskatchewan Book Awards, 2006 Archived September 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Madeleine Thien wins Canada's first novel award for Certainty". CBC News, October 5, 2007.
  4. Emerging Writers Award Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Authors Association.
  5. "New York Journal of Books". Retrieved 2019-01-25.


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