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Revision as of 09:55, 6 September 2008 by Lightbot (talk | contribs) (Units/dates/other)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Bill Gaston (born 1953) is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer.
Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia.
His story collection Mount Appetite (2002) was nominated for the 2002 Giller Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Gaston received a second Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize nomination for his novel Sointula (2004). He was the recipient of the inaugural Timothy Findley Award in 2003.
Gaston currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He previously served as director of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick, and as editor of The Fiddlehead.
Bibliography
Novels
- Tall Lives (1990)
- The Cameraman (1994)
- Bella Combe Journal (1996)
- The Good Body (2000)
- Sointula (2004)
- The Order of Good Cheer (2008)
Short stories
- Deep Cove Stories (1989)
- North of Jesus' Beans (1994)
- Sex is Red (1998)
- Mount Appetite (2002)
- Gargoyles (2006) (nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for fiction)
Poetry
- Inviting Blindness (1995)
Drama
- Yardsale (1994)
- Ethnic Cleansing
- I am Danielle Steel
Non-fiction
- Midnight Hockey: All About Beer, the Boys and the Real Canadian Game^ (2006)