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Occupation
  
Author

Name
  
Ann Ireland


Role
  
Author

Movies
  
The Pianist

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Alma mater
  
University of British Columbia

Notable awards
  
Seal First Novel Award Governor General's Award (shortlisted) Rogers Writers' Trust Award (shortlisted)

Education
  
University of British Columbia

Nominations
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Books
  
A Certain Mr Takahashi, The instructor, Exile, The Ann Ireland Library: T, The Blue Guitar

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Ann Ireland (born 1953) is a Canadian fiction author.

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Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada and is now the coordinator of the Writing Workshops Department at the Chang School of Continuing Education Ryerson University in Toronto. Her 1985 novel, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, was the basis for the 1991 feature film The Pianist.

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Awards and recognition

  • 1985: A Certain Mr. Takahashi finalist, Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1996: The Instructor finalist, Ontario Trillium Award; nominated for Barnes and Noble "Discover these Great New Writers" Award.
  • 2002: Exile fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards; finalist for Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Named by Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire Magazine as a top book of the year.
  • References

    Ann Ireland Wikipedia