Zsuzsi Gartner
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| Born | May 4, 1960 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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Zsuzsi Gartner (born 4 May 1960 in Winnipeg)[1] is a Canadian author and journalist. She regularly writes for The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Quill & Quire, Canadian Business, and Western Living.[1]
Gartner was born 4 May 1960, in Winnipeg[1] and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides.
Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, Western Living and Canadian Business. She has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night and books editor for The Georgia Straight.
She is also a writer of short stories, which have appeared in a number of publications. She published a collection of these stories, All the Anxious Girls on Earth in 1999.
Gartner has been writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia and a member of the faculty at Banff Centre's Writing Studios.[1]
Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.
She also founded and directs Writers Adventure Camp in Whistler, British Columbia.[2]
Awards and honours
Gartner's work has brought her three Western Magazine Awards, including a Gold Award in 2003 for feature writing.[2] In 2005, she won the Canadian National Magazine Awards' Silver award for Fiction.
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives | Scotiabank Giller Prize | Shortlist | [1][3][2] |
| 2020 | The Beguiling | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Shortlist | [2][4][5] |
