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University of Victoria.
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Deborah Willis
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Deborah Willis is a Canadian short story writer Her fiction has appeared in Grain, Event, PRISM international, and The Walrus. lieutenant was published in the United States by Harper Perennial in 2010 and translated into Hebrew (Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Publishing) and Italian (Svanire, Delegate Vecchio Editore).
Deborah Willis has been a horseback riding instructor and a reporter, and worked as a bookseller in Victoria, British Columbia.
She has been writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, and was Canadian Writer-in-Residence in the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary for the 2012-2013 academic year. Commenting on Vanishing, Alice Munro has said "The emotional range and depth of these stories, the clarity and the deftness, is astonishing.".
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Quotations: "The emotional range and depth of these stories, the clarity and the deftness, is astonishing.".
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Governor General's Award; Danuta Gleed Literary Award; the Victoria Butler Book Prize
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.