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White Lies (for My Mother) First edition cover of Canadian releaseAuthor 'Liza Potvin' Subject Incest Publisher NeWest Press Publication date 1 March 1992 Publication place Canada Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Pages 224 ISBN 9780920897133
White Lies (for My Mother) is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Liza Potvin , first published in March 1992 by NeWest Press . In the book, the author chronicles her "lost" childhood, as an incest victim, and the subsequent years of emotional turmoil, leading to recovery.
Awards and honours
White Lies (for my mother) received the 1993 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ". The book was also nominated for the 1992 "VanCity Book Award", and The Vancouver Sun 's 1992 listing as one of the "Six Best Books of the Year".
See also
References
^ Faculty of Arts, 1993, Edna Staebler Award Archived 6 June 2014 at Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Liza Potvin. Retrieved 20 November 2012
VIU, Liza Potvin Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Bibliography: Contents. Retrieved 20 November 2012
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Winners of the Edna Staebler Award 1990s
Susan Mayse , Ginger (1991)
Marie Wadden , Nitassinan , (1992)
Liza Potvin , White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay , The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
Linda Johns , Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
Denise Chong , The Concubine's Children (1995)
George G. Blackburn , The Guns of Normandy (1996)
Anne Mullens , Timely Death (1997)
Charlotte Gray , Mrs. King (1998)
Michael Poole , Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
2000s
Wayson Choy , Paper Shadows (2000)
Taras Grescoe , Sacré Blues (2001)
Tom Allen , Rolling Home (2002)
Alison Watt , The Last Island (2003)
Andrea Curtis , Into the Blue (2004)
Anne Coleman , I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
Francis Chalifour , After (2006)
Linden MacIntyre , Causeway (2007)
Bruce Serafin , Stardust (2008)
Russell Wangersky , Burning Down the House (2009)
2010s
John Leigh Walters , A Very Capable Life (2010)
Helen Waldstein Wilkes , Letters from the Lost (2011)
Joshua Knelman , Hot Art (2012)
Carol Shaben , Into the Abyss (2013)
Arno Kopecky , The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
Lynn Thomson , Birding with Yeats (2015)
Ann Walmsley , The Prison Book Club (2016)
Sonja Larsen , Red Star Tattoo (2017)
Pauline Dakin , Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
2020s
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