Butala, Sharon (1940–)
Butala, Sharon (1940–)
Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Born 1940 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada; attended University of Saskatchewan.
Worked in special education before becoming full-time writer; works include Country of the Heart (1984), Queen of the Headaches (1985), The Gates of the Sun (1986), Fever (1990), Upstream (1991), the bestselling The Perfection of the Morning (1994), and The Garden of Eden (1998). Received Canadian Authors Award for Fiction (1992) and Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction (1994).
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