Carol ShieldsMajor Works

Sarah CoatesGavin Bradley

Award-Winning NovelsLarry’s Party

Protagonist Larry Weller is an ordinary man, a fumbler, who stumbles into clarity when he visits the maze at Hampton Court on his bus tour honeymoon in 1978.

The Stone DiariesDaisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography

SwannThe story of four individuals whose lives become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is only discovered hours before her violent death.

Carol the PlaywrightCarol Shields was also the acclaimed author of plays such as:

Departures & ArrivalsThe comings and goings at a busy airport departure lounge

Thirteen HandsA musical set around a bridge table through different generations of players, the women in the play discover family histories, the tricks of getting old and a companionship that gets passed on, like an exquisite heirloom, to a next generation of bridge players.

Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of FamiliesInterrogates the ambivalence felt towards families, the drive we all share to find or create some kind of family, and the equally strong desire to escape the family's fury.

Awards

Larry's Party, The Orange Prize, 1998.Larry's Party, National Book Critics Circle Award, 1998.Larry's Party, Prix de Lire, 1998.The Stone Diaries, Pulitzer Prize, 1995.The Stone Diaries, Governal General's Award, 1993.The Stone Diaries, McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, 1993.Marian Engel Award, 1990.Swann, Arthur Ellis First Mystery Novel Award, 1988

Notes

Biblio Works. Biblio.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2010.

Indigo Books. Chapters.Indigo.ca. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2010.

Manitoba Writers Guild Inc. Manitoba Author Publication Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2010.

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