Marion Quednau

Marion Quednau (born 1952) is a Canadian author, poet and children's writer who lives in Mission, British Columbia. Her novel, The Butterfly Chair, won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her first children's novel, The Gift of Odin, was published in 2007. Quednau is also an accomplished poet, whose 2009 poem, Paradise, Later Years won a gold medal for The Malahat Review, which entered Quednau's work in the poetry category for the Canadian National Magazine Awards.