Caroline Adderson is the author of two internationally published novels, A History of Forgetting (Key Porter 1999) and Sitting Practice (Thomas Allen 2003), and a widely anthologized collection of short stories, Bad Imaginings (The Porcupine’s Quill 1993). Her work has won her two Ethel Wilson Fiction Prizes, three CBC Literary Awards, as well as numerous nominations including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her stories have been broadcast on and adapted for CBC radio. Pleased To Meet You (Thomas Allen 2006), her latest collection of short fiction, was longlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize and named as a best book of that year by The Globe and Mail, The National Post and The Toronto Star. Caroline was awarded the 2006 Marian Engel Award, given annually to a female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work.
Caroline Adderson is also the author of three books for children. Very Serious Children (Scholastic 2007), a novel for middle readers about two brothers, the sons of clowns, who run away from the circus, is nominated for a 2008 Diamond Willow Award and a 2009 Rocky Mountain Book Award. I, Bruno (Orca 2007), a collection of stories for emerging readers featuring seven year-old Bruno and his true life adventures, is nominated for a 2008-2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and a 2009 Shining Willow Award. Its sequel, Bruno For Real, will appear in 2009.
PUBLICATIONS:
Bruno For Real (children's fiction). Orca, 2009
I, Bruno (children's fiction). Orca, 2007
Very Serious Children (children's fiction). Scholastic, 2007
Pleased to Meet You. Thomas Allen, 2006
Sitting Practice. Thomas Allen, 2003
A History of Forgetting. Key Porter, 1999
Bad Imaginings. The Porcupine's Quill, 1993
AWARDS:
Marian Engel Award for a body of work, 2006
CBC Literary Award, 2005
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Sitting Practice, 2003
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Bad Imaginings, 1994
