Education
University of Illinois system. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (2007-04-10)
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Blackwater
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Celestial Navigation
(By the highly acclaimed author of the novel Enemy Women ...)
By the highly acclaimed author of the novel Enemy Women Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Now back in print, Paulette Jiles’s celebrated, multi-award-winning poetry collection. These are poems of scorching intensity, which examine the politics of childhood and love; explore the rigours and blessings of living in the far north; mark the way stations of a life of discovery and exploration. The result is a poetry of singular, telling immediacy.
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Paulette Jiles
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Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature. Jiles moved to Canada in 1969. Currently she lives in San Antonio,Texas.
Achievements
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Celestial Navigation (1984,winner of the 1984 Governor General"s Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award) Sitting in the Club Carolina Drinking Rum and Karma Kola (1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize) Enemy Women (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers" Trust Fiction Prize).
Works
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Celestial Navigation
(By the highly acclaimed author of the novel Enemy Women ...)
- Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles (2007-04-10)
- Blackwater
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Celestial Navigation
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Born
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Nationality
Canada
Awards
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the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Pat Lowther Award; Governor General's Award; Gerald Lampert Award; Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction 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 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.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 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.