Marion Quednau's novel The Butterfly Chair (Random House, 1987) won the W.H. Smith/Books In Canada First Novel Award in 1988 as a psychological story of a daughter's fearful fascination with her angry and violent father. Reluctant to consider marriage and a family of her own, 30-year-old Else, the protagonist, writes a long-overdue letter to her dead father after a dreamed meeting with Carl Jung.

Quednau's volume of poetry, Kissing: Selected Chronicles (League of Canadian Poets, 1999) won a National Poetry Award. Her children's book is Nerves Out Loud (Annick, 2001).

Born (1952) and raised on the northwest outskirts of Toronto, near a bend in the Humber River, Quednau has run a small farm in Tweed, Ontario, written an eight-part series about handicapped children for CBC and has raised her daughter in Mission, B.C. She now lives on the Sunshine Coast.

BOOKS

Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road (Nightwood, 2021) $21.95 978-0-88971-398-7. Short stories.

Paradise, Later Years (Caitlin Press, 2018) $18.00 9781987915839. Poetry
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Kissing: Selected Chronicles (League of Canadian Poets, 1999). Poetry

Nerves Out Loud (Annick, 2001). Children's book.

The Butterfly Chair (Random House, 1987). Novel.

[BCBW 2021] "Fiction" "Kidlit"