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Carol Shields
BornCarol Ann Warner
(1935-06-02)June 2, 1935
Oak Park, Illinois, US
DiedJuly 16, 2003(2003-07-16) (aged 68)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationAuthor
NationalityCanadian
American
EducationHanover College (BA)
University of Ottawa (MA)
Period1972–2002
Spouse
Donald Hugh Shields
(m. 1957)
Children5

Carol Ann Shields CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

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Carol Shields

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Carol Ann Shields CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known...

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Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a North American literary award, created in 2020 to honour literature by women. The annual prize will award US$150...

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BBC list of 100 most inspiring novels

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all personally and culturally". "Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Carol Shields featured on BBC's list of 100 novels that shaped the world". CBC News...

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Fatimah Asghar

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April 2023. The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (May 4, 2023). "It's official! Fatimah Asghar is the winner of the first ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction...

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The Stone Diaries

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The Stone Diaries is a 1993 novel by Carol Shields. The book is the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose...

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Demon Copperhead

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(1993) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996) Martin Dressler: The...

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Liana Finck

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features a female God. Let There Be Light was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023. Finck is Jewish and lives in New York City...

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Canadian literature

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work. Other major Canadian novelists include Carol Shields, Lawrence Hill, and Alice Munro. Carol Shields novel The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer...

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The Shields Stories

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produced by Shaftesbury Films, the series dramatized six short stories by Carol Shields. The series was a sequel of sorts to Shaftesbury's prior The Atwood...

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Daphne Palasi Andreades

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Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023. Sana Goyal, "Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi...

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Activities of Daily Living

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Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and nominated for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Alice, an immigrant from Taiwan who lives in New...

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List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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Richler Arundhati Roy Bernice Rubens Donal Ryan Sunjeev Sahota Will Self Carol Shields David Storey Elizabeth Strout Rose Tremain Anne Tyler Marina Warner...

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Lisa Alward

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published by Biblioasis in 2023 and initially longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Reid Lodge, "An Interview with Lisa Alward". The...

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English literature

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twice. Major Canadian novelists include Carol Shields, Lawrence Hill, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Carol Shields novel The Stone Diaries won the 1995...

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Carol Ann

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player Carol Ann Rymer Davis, known as Carol Rymer Davis, (1944–2010), American balloonist, and radiologist Carol Ann Shields, known as Carol Shields (1935–2003)...

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The Republic of Love

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directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based on the novel of the same name by Carol Shields and stars Bruce Greenwood and Emilia Fox. It premiered at the Toronto...

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Hampton Court Maze

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including humorist Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889) and Carol Shields' Larry's Party (1997), and is referenced in the Only Fools and Horses...

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List of Canadian writers

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adult literature The Glory Wind Carol Shields 1935 2003 novelist, short stories The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party Erin Shields playwright If We Were Birds...

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Manitoba Book Awards

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Award for Best First Book, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Award for best Winnipeg book, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by...

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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John Updike, 1982, 1991 Colson Whitehead, 2017, 2020 4 Nominations Joyce Carol Oates Philip Roth 3 Nominations Alice McDermott Anne Tyler Colson Whitehead...

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Eleanor Wachtel

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a contributor to the best-selling Dropped Threads (2001), edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, and Lost Classics (2000), edited by Michael Ondaatje...

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Manitoba

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Neepawa; the latter title won the Governor General's Award in 1966. Carol Shields won both the Governor General's Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The...

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