Darlene Quaife

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Darlene Alice Quaife (née Barry) (born September 1, 1948, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist. Her first novel, Bone Bird, won a 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, for Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean.[1]

Quaife was educated at the University of Alberta, from which she received a Master of Arts degree in 1986.[2] She is a past president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta,[3] and a former director and founding member of Wordfest.[4]

She lives in Priddis, Alberta.[5]

Selected bibliography[edit]

  • Bone Bird, Turnstone Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-88801-133-6
  • Days and Nights on the Amazon, Turnstone Press, 1994, ISBN 9780888011831
  • Death Writes: A Curious Notebook - 1997; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55152-038-4
  • Polar Circus, Turnstone Press, 2001, ISBN 0-88801-253-5

References[edit]

  1. ^ George Melnyk (1999). The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century. University of Alberta. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-88864-324-7. Darlene Quaife alberta.
  2. ^ Quaife, Darlene A. (1986). "Beyond the island". doi:10.7939/R3Z31NZ5S. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "WGA Board of Directors Archive". WGA website. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Wordfest @ 20: Bringing writers and readers together for two decades". Calgary Herald website. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Arsenal Pulp Press Contributor Info Page". www.arsenalpulp.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-17.