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Lillian Bouzane

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Lillian Bouzane is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist.

Her novel In the Hands of the Living God was published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, and was Long Listed for the IMPACT prize. The British edition was nominated for the Man Booker award. The novel was named one of the Globe and Mail 100 best books and is being taught in High Schools in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Her suite of poems on the Mount Cashel crimes, “In the Time of Wolves”, was dramatized by CBC radio and aired nationally and provincially. It won the international award -The Gabriel, the New York Festivals bronze medal award and was nominated by CBC Radio for The Peabody Award.

Her essay “Making the Mount Cashel Poems” won First Prize in the Provincial Arts and letters Competition.

She has two books of poetry.

Her poetry and short stories have been anthologised both nationally and internationally.