Frances Itani was born in 1942 in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Quebec when she was four. She received a dual B.A. in English and psychology from the University of Alberta and an M.A. in English literature from the University of New Brunswick. Itani worked as a nurse for eight years, until 1965 when she signed up for a writing class taught by W.O. Mitchell. She divides her time between Ottawa and Geneva where her husband, a Red Cross official, is based.

Books by Frances Itani

	1978 No Other Lodgings
	1979 Linger By the Sea
	1983 Rentee Bay
	1988 A Season of Mourning
	1989 Pack Ice
	1989 Truth or Lies
	1994 Man Without Face
	1998 Leaning, Leaning Over Water
	2003 Deafening The story of a deaf woman and her hearing husband during World War I.
	2004 Poached Egg on Toast
	2007 Remembering the Bones A woman has been invited to England to celebrate her 80th birthday with the Queen but on the way to the airport, she drives off the road and into a ravine.
	2011 Requiem
	2014 Tell
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2006 – Deafening – Shortlisted

• Combat des livres
  • 2006 – Une coquille de silence – Shortlisted

• Evergreen Award
  • 2012 – Requiem – Shortlisted

• Giller Prize
  • 2014 – Tell – Shortlisted

• Order of Canada
  • 2006 – Member

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Added 08 December 2005.
Updated 01 March 2015.