Alison Pick
CBC Books | Posted: June 27, 2018 9:14 PM | Last Updated: August 7, 2018
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Alison Pick is an award-winning novelist and poet. In 2015, she served on the Giller prize jury. She is now faculty at the Humber School for Writers. In 2002, she received the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared in various publications, including the Globe and Mail and the Walrus.
Her memoir entitled Between Gods won the Canadian Jewish Book Award. It was also shortlisted for both the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and for the JQ Wingate Prize in the UK.
She is the author of novels The Sweet Edge, published in 2005, and Strangers With the Same Dream, published in 2017, as well as two poetry collections, Questions & Answers and The Dream World. Most notably, her 2010 novel Far to Go was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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