Bonnie Burnard
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Bonnie Burnard (January 15, 1945 ā March 4, 2017) was a Canadian short story writer and novelist, best known for her 1999 novel, A Good House,[1] which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Born | Bonita Amelia Huctwith (1945-01-15)January 15, 1945 Petrolia, Ontario, Canada |
Died | March 4, 2017(2017-03-04) (aged 72) London, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Novelist & Short story writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | University of Western Ontario |
Notable works | A Good House |
Notable awards | Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1989) Marian Engel Award (1995) Scotiabank Giller Prize (1999) |
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Born in Petrolia, Ontario, she grew up in Forest, Ontario, and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, in the late 1970s. In the early 1990s she returned to Southwestern Ontario, and was a resident of London, Ontario, where she died on March 4, 2017.[2]