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Gail Anderson-Dargatz was born in 1963 in Kamloops, British Columbia. She grew up in Salmon Arm and started working as a reporter for the local newspaper when she was in her early twenties. A graduate of the University of Victoria with a B.A. in creative writing, Anderson-Dargatz got her break when she won the CBC Literary Competition.

Books by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

	1994 The Miss Hereford Stories	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1996 The Cure For Death by Lightning	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1998 A Recipe for Bees Augusta Olsen has seven cats, a son-in-law in the hospital "for tests", and a husband who never says what he is thinking.	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2002 A Rhinestone Button	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2007 Turtle Valley	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1996 – The Cure for Death by Lightning – Shortlisted

• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • 1997 – The Cure for Death by Lightning – Winner

• Giller Prize
  • 1996 – The Cure for Death by Lightning – Shortlisted
  • 1998 – A Recipe for Bees – Shortlisted

Added 12 November 2005.
Updated 10 June 2010.