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    David Adamns Richards (Canada)

    		    

    David Adams Richards is the author of the novels The Friends of Meager Fortune, River of the Brokenhearted, and Mercy Among the Children, which won the Giller Prize and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. He is the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Streetwinner of the Governor General's Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors' Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. His novel The Bay of Love and Sorrows has been made into a feature film. As part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadian biography series, Richards begins the series with the biography of Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook rose from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick to become a millionaire at age 25, and by age 40 was considered the most influential newspaperman in the world.

    		   

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    David Albahari (Serbia and Canada)

    		    

    David Albahari is one of Serbia's most important writers. He has written eight novels and eight collections of short stories, a number of which have been award winners in Serbia and Yugoslavia. His books have been translated into fourteen languages, including English. He wrote Snow Man shortly after arriving in Canada in 1994, when Serbia was in flames. He lives in Calgary, where he is a freelance writer and translator.

    		   

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    Lewis DeSoto (Canada)

    		    

    Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa and studied at what is now the Emily Carr College of Art. Both a novelist and painter, DeSoto's paintings have been widely exhibited across Canada. His acclaimed novel, A Blade of Grass, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. As part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadian biography series, DeSoto authored the biography of Emily Carr. In Victorian society Carr was dismissed as mad, bad, and dangerous to know. DeSoto reveals Carr as one of those unique individuals who articulate the symbols and images by which Canada knows itself.

    		    

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    Hadani Ditmars (Canada)

    		    

    Journalist, author and photographer Hadani Ditmars's work examines the human costs of sectarian strife as well as cultural resistance to war, occupation and embargo. Hadani's work, which has taken her to Beirut, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Zanzibar, Guatemala, Colombia, Egypt, Ireland, Indonesia, Italy, India, Jordan, Tunisia and Uzbekistan, has been published in the New York Times, the London Independent, The Globe and Mail, Newsweek, Time, Macleans and Ms. Magazine and broadcast on CBC and BBC radio and television. Hadani has been a regular CBC Radio's Dispatches contributor since the show's debut in 2001. She was also a regular current affairs commentator on Rogers OMNI television program The Standard. Her best selling book Dancing in the No Fly Zone (chosen by the Globe and Mail as one of 100 best and most influential books of 2005) recounts her time in Iraq from 1997 until the fall of 2003 and is one of the few recent books on the troubled nation that covers pre and post invasion reality. Hadani's next book focuses on her return to Israel/Palestine and Lebanon a decade and half after her first sojourns there.

    		    

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    Charlotte Gray (Canada)

    		    

    Charlotte Gray is one of Canada's best-known writers and biographers and has forged a distinguished career exploring the lives of extraordinary Canadians. An adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Gray sits on the boards of both the Dominion Institute and the Canadian National History Society. As part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadian biography series, Gray authored the biography of Nellie McClung. A feminist, politician, and social activist, McClung's convictions and campaigns helped to alter Canada's political landscape.

    		    

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