Marianne Brandis was born in Holland in 1938, came to Canada at age eight, and lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario. She began writing in her teens, and continued while working as a copywriter at private radio stations and the CBC, and teaching English at Ryerson University. Since 1989 she has been a full-time writer. She has written historical fiction set in Canadian and British history, and novels set in modern-day Canada. She has also written two works of creative non-fiction, Finding Words: A Writer's Memoir and Frontiers and Sanctuaries: A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada.
PUBLICATIONS:
Frontiers and Sanctuaries: A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
Belongings. self-published chapbook, 2004
Finding Words: A Writer's Memoir. Manotick, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 2000
Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill illus. G. Brender à Brandis, 1996
Fire Ship. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1992
The Sign of the Scales. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, G. Brender à Brandis, 1990
Special Nests. Windsor, Ontario: Netherlandic, 1990
Elizabeth, Duchess of Somerset. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1989
The Quarter-Pie Window. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill illus. G. Brender à Brandis, 1985
The Tinderbox. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, illus. G. Brender à Brandis, 1982
This Spring's Sowing. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970; England: G. Harrap and Co., 1970.,
AWARDS:
Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto for Rebellion, 1997
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for Rebellion, 1996
Commendation from the Toronto Historical Board for Fire Ship, 1993
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for The Sign of the Scales, 1991
Young Adult Canadian Book Award, Saskatchewan Library Association for Quarter-Pie Window, 1986
