Name Maura Hanrahan | Role Author | |
Books Tsunami, Sheilagh's Brush: A Novel, The Alphabet Fleet: The, The doryman, A Veritable Scoff | ||
Maura Hanrahan (born 1963) is a Canadian author.
She is the author of Tsunami, which tells the story of a 1929 natural catastrophe caused by tsunami wave in Newfoundland. The book received the Heritage and History Award and was short-listed for the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-fiction. Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster, a work of creative non-fiction titled, tells the story of a devastating hurricane in Labrador in 1885.
Hanrahan has won a number of awards for writing, including The Independent newspaper's inaugural student travel writing competition, the Lawrence Jackson Award for Writing (administered by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council).
Hanrahan is also an independent anthropologist who works with indigenous peoples' organizations in several Canadian provinces and at the national level.
She is married to the novelist Paul Butler.