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JoAnn Dionne
Photo: Shari Nakagawa 2015
JoAnn Dionne holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Victoria. Her first book, Little Emperors, a memoir of her time teaching elementary school in China, was short-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature and a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She is currently completing another memoir--part travelogue, part political history, part love story--set in India, China and Tibet. A resident of Victoria for over a decade, JoAnn now lives in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Publications
Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China. The Dundurn Group, 2008
Awards
Shortlisted, George Ryga Award for Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China, 2008
Finalist, Victoria Butler Book Prize for Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China, 2008
Second-prize, Prairie Fire Creative Nonfiction Contest for "The Old Man of China", 2001
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