Caroline Adderson is a Canadian

Canada

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 novelist and short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 writer. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.

Personal life and career

Caroline Adderson was born on September 9, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta

Alberta

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. She studied at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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, receiving a degree in education in 1982.

Her first short story collection, Bad Imaginings (1993) was nominated for the Governor General's Award

Governor General's Award

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 and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada....

. Her second novel, Sitting Practice (2003), also won the award. Adderson has won the CBC Literary Competition three times. In 2006, she received the Marian Engel Award

Marian Engel Award

The Marian Engel Award was a Canadian literary award, presented each year from 1986 to 2007 by the Writers' Trust of Canada in memory of the writer Marian Engel...

, given annually to an outstanding Canadian female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work.

Awards and honours

• 1993 Nominee, Governor General's Award, for Bad Imaginings
• 1993 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Bad Imaginings
• 2003 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Sitting Practice
• 2006 Marian Engel Award

Short stories

• Bad Imaginings (1993) ISBN 0889841721
• Pleased to Meet You (2006) (longlisted for the Giller Prize) ISBN 0887622208

Novels

• A History of Forgetting (1999)
• Sitting Practice (2003) ISBN 0887621295
• The Sky is Falling (2010) Thomas Allen Publishers