Audrey Thomas, Galiano Island, B.C.

1997

Born and raised in New York State but has lived and worked on Canada=s west coast since 1959. She now makes her home on Galiano Island, B.C. Her first book, while published in the U.S., was written here and in West Africa. She is both very domestic and a wanderer--pretty well in equal measure. She has three grown daughters and two growing grandsons, all in B.C.

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Selected Publications:

• Over 20 radio dramas in CBC. The Wild Blue Yonder. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1990.
• Goodbye Harold, Good Luck. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1986.
• Intertidal Life. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 1984.
• Latakia. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1979.
• Mrs. Blood. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1975.

Awards:

• Ethel Wilson Award, B.C. Book Prize for Fiction, for Coming Down from Wa, 1995. This book also nominated for Governor General's Award and Commonwealth Literature Prize.
• Ethel Wilson Award for Fiction, B.C. Book Prize, for Wild Blue Yonder, 1991.
• Canada-Australia Literary Prize, 1990.
• Marian Engel Award, 1987.
• Canada-Scotland Literary Fellow, 1985-86.
• Ethel Wilson Award, B.C. Book Prize, for Intertidal Life, 1985.

“Isobel Gunn”, the novel Audrey worked on while at the Berton House has since been published and featured on CBC radio.