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| 2006 |
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| Dr.
Dale Auger |
Dr.
Dale Auger (Can) is a renowned Cree artist and
motivational speaker with a unique perspective on education
and the communication of knowledge; he brings his first
book, Mwakwa - Talks to the Loon, to this year's
Festival.
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| Yvon
Brochu |
Yvon
Brochu (Can) has written more than thirty-five
books for readers of all ages and pens the hilarious Galoche
Supercaboche series of novels and comics; his latest works
are Galoche en grande vedette and Galoche
Supercaboche et les Jeux olympiques.
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| Marty
Chan |
Marty
Chan (Can) is an award-winning playwright and
author of teen fiction; he makes his return to WordFest
with The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, the follow-up
to his hit début novel The Mystery of the Frozen Brains.
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| Natale
Ghent |
Natale
Ghent is an award-winning journalist and the
author of the acclaimed novel No Small Thing
- nominated for the Silver Birch Award among other honours
-- whose sequel she brings to this year's WordFest.
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| Hazel
Hutchins |
Hazel
Hutchins (Can) is the award-winning author of
over thirty children's books and a regular presenter at
venues across Canada; she brings the latest volume of
her popular TJ series, TJ and the Sports Fanatic,
to the Festival.
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Michael Kusugak |
Michael
Kusugak (Can) is an award-winning writer and
traditional Inuit storyteller; he returns to WordFest
with his latest book The Curse of the Shaman,
a classic tale of adventure, perseverance and first-time
love. |
| David
Poulsen |
David
A. Poulsen (Can) embarked on his writing career
in 1984 when he won the Alberta Culture Short Story Writing
Competition; he now has a total of eighteen books published,
most recently The Vampire's Visit and The
Hunk Machine.
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| Larry
Verstraete |
Larry
Verstraete (Can) has been bringing the world
of science alive for teens since the early Nineties; his
latest book is Lost Treasures, a collection of
more than eighty real-life stories about treasure hunters
and their fabulous finds.
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| 2005 |
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| Elizabeth
Etue |
Elizabeth won
high praise for On the Edge, a history of women's
hockey; she recounts Olympic gold-medallist Hayley Wickenhaiser's
rise to fame with previously unpublished stories and photographs
in Born to Play.
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| Charlotte
Gingras |
En 2000, Charlotte
Gingras a de nouveau reçu le Prix du Gouverneur général
pour son roman jeunesse Un été de Jade. Elle
est membre de l'Union des écrivaines et des écrivains
québécois. La courte èchelle inc.
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| Francois
Gravel |
François is
an award-winning writer with a following among adults
and youth alike; his latest novels are Adieu, Betty
Crocker and the children's titles Sekhmet, la
déesse sauvage and Klonk contre Klonk.
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| Caroline
Merola |
Caroline publie
également des romans pour les jeunes avec plusieurs éditeurs.
Elle apportera L'île aux monstres à WordFest
cette année..
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| Simon
Rose |
Simon lives
and writes in Calgary, where he is in constant demand
as a presenter for youth audiences. He comes to WordFest
with a brand new novel, The Clone Conspiracy.
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| Arthur
Slade |
Arthur writes
the hilarious "Great Scott" comic strip, and
his series Hallowed Knight has earned glowing
reviews and worldwide popularity. He studies the strange
and wondrous Tribes of high-school in his new
book of the same name.
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| Bill
Slavin |
Bill is an
award-winning illustrator with over fifty children's books
to his credit; the enchanting children's science book
Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made is
his latest solo project.
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| Eric
Wilson |
Eric is among
Canada's most successful writers of children's mysteries,
having sold almost a million books in this country alone;
the latest in his popular series is The Emily Carr
Mystery.
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| 2004 |
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| Ange
Zhang |
Ange Zhang
is an author, illustrator and theater designer. He has
illustrated many children’s books, and has recently written
and illustrated his own, Red Land Yellow River:
A Story from the Cultural Revolution.
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| Laurent
Chabin |
Laurent Chabin
est né et a grandi en France. En 1994, il déménage
à Calgary avec sa famille. Depuis 1996, il a écrit
plus de cinquante livres en français qui sont bien
reçus autant chez les jeunes que chez les adultes.
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| Sophie
Bérubé |
Originaire
de la ville de Québec, Sophie Bérubé
vit en Nouvelle-Écosse où elle se laisse
inspirer par la magie et la beauté qui l’entourent.
Son premier recueil pour enfants Le chef-d’oeuvre de Lombrie,
a gagné le prix Lilla Stirling au printemps 2002.
Son deuxième livre pour enfants, La truelle
magique, a été publié au printemps
2001.
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| Pamela
Porter |
Pamela Paige
Porter is a poet and writer of children’s books. She will
be presenting Sky at this year’s Book Rapport;
a story set in Montana and southern Canada after the great
floods of 1964. Sky tells the story of the devastation
caused by the flood and the impact it caused on farm land,
families and interracial relations.
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| Hazel
Hutchins |
Born and raised
on southern Alberta farm, Hazel Hutchins has enjoyed the
West’s beauty her whole life. Hazel Hutchins brings three
new books to this year’s festival: Beneath the Bridge,
The Sidewalk Rescue and TJ and the Rockets.
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| Richard
Scrimger |
Richard Scrimger
won a Mr. Christie’s Book Award in 1999 for his book The
Nose from Jupiter. The series of zany, daring and
delightful children’s books featuring the affable alien
Norbert continued with A Nose for Adventure,
Noses are Red and the latest book is The
Boy from Earth.
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| 2003 |
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| Linda
Bailey |
Linda Bailey
is an award-winning author of children’s books, and enjoys
a huge following for her classic Stevie Diamond mysteries
and the Good Times Travel Agency series; her latest is
Adventures in Ancient China.
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| David
Baudemont |
David Baudemont
is an innovative Fransaskois children’s novelist and playwright;
his novels Les beaux jours and Les pierres
du Nil were composed in semi-improvised creative
workshops including young people.
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| Norma
Charles |
Norma Charles
is the author of thirteen books for children, including
her latest work All the Way to Mexico, a lighthearted
yarn about one boy's struggle to adjust to a changed family
situation.
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| Marie-Danielle
Croteau |
Marie-Danielle
Croteau hails from Eastern Québec with a pair of
new children’s novels, Un rêveur qui aimait
la mer et les poissons dorés and La petite
fille qui voulait être roi.
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| Sheree
Fitch |
Sheree Fitch
is a renowned performance poet, storyteller, author, and
educator; she released her first young adult novel One
More Step last year, and The Rock A Bye Rock
is her latest book.
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| Caroline
Lawrence |
Caroline Lawrence
brought her training in the classics to the writing of
The Thieves of Ostia, the first of her immensely
popular Roman Mysteries series; her latest is The
Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina.
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| Rosemary
Sadlier |
Rosemary Sadlier
is a noted author and activist who was instrumental in
making the celebration of Black History Month a national
event in Canada; her latest is The Kid’s Book of Black
Canadian History.
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| Andrea
Spalding |
Andrea Spalding
is a renowned and multi-talented children’s author and
entertainer; her latest works are The Disappearing
Dinosaur – part of the unique Internet-integrated
Adventure Net series – and Dance of the Stones.
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|
| 2002 |
| Julie
Burtinshaw |
Julie Burtinshaw
earned critical praise for her innovative debut novel,
Dead Reckoning, and returns to WordFest with
an equally gripping and fascinating tale of the sea in
Adrift.
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| Laurent
Chabin |
Laurent Chabin
began writing in 1994, and has since published over forty-five
well-loved books in French for readers of all ages; his
most recent works include Le meilleur ami du monde
and La conspiration du siècle.
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| Julie
Lawson |
Julie Lawson
is an award-winning children’s writer whose potent imagination
animates her new works The Klondike Cat, Emily: Disaster
at the Bridge and A Ribbon of Shining Steel.
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| Raymond
Plante |
Raymond Plante
is a prolific and award-winning writer with over forty
books in French for youth and adults; his latest books
are Les lanternes de Shanghai and Marilou
Polaire et la magie des étioles.
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| Richard
Scrimger |
Richard Scrimger
has taken children's literature by storm with adorable
characters like the nose-dwelling alien Norbert, who returns
in Noses are Red, and Winifred in Princess
Bun Bun.
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| Nicky
Singer |
Nicky Singer
is an accomplished and versatile writer who debuts as
a children's writer with feather boy, a coming-of-age
tale that has been praised as a moving, original and captivating
book.
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| Arthur
Slade |
Arthur Slade
is a major new voice in children's literature; he won
a Governor General’s Literary Award in 2001 for Dust
and trains his sights on high school in his latest, Tribes.
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