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Occupation
  
short story writer

Name
  
Lois Braun

Notable works
  
A Stone Watermelon


Period
  
1980s-2000s

Nationality
  
Canadian

Role
  
Writer

Books
  
A Stone Watermelon, The pumpkin-eaters, The Montreal cats

Nominations
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Lois Braun (born 1949 in Rosenfeld, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1986 Governor General's Awards for her debut short story collection A Stone Watermelon.

Educated at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba, she worked as a school teacher in Altona until her retirement in 2003. She published three further collections of short stories, and won the Margaret Laurence Award from the Manitoba Book Awards in 2008 for The Penance Drummer.

Works

  • A Stone Watermelon (1986, ISBN 978-0888011077)
  • The Pumpkin-Eaters (1990, ISBN 978-0888011480)
  • The Montreal Cats (1995, ISBN 978-0888011992)
  • The Penance Drummer (2007, ISBN 978-0888013279)

    • References

    Lois Braun Wikipedia
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