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The
2011 Award |
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
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Nominated by:
Publisher of Nominated Edition: Viking Canada
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The complete A-Z listing of nominated authors | |
ABOUT
THE BOOK |
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR |
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Shandi Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Under This Unbroken Sky is her first novel and winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award (Canada and Caribbean region), the 2010 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, and the 2010 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. It was also named one of the Top 10 Booklist Best First Novels. Shandi spent her childhood on a military base on the prairies and now makes her home in Nova Scotia with her husband, Alan, and their dog, Annie. |
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LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS |
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Literary merit. Very well received by library staff and patrons alike. |
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