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Audrey Thomas (née Callahan) was born 17 November 1935 in Binghamton, New York and immigrated to Canada in 1959. She received an M.A. in English from the University of British Columbia in 1963 and for the next two years, lived in Ghana. In addition to her novels and short stories, Thomas has written more than 20 radio plays for the CBC. She has lived on Galiano Island off the coast of British Columbia since 1969.

Books by Audrey Thomas

	1967 Ten Green Bottles
	1970 Mrs. Blood
	1972 Munchmeyer / Prospero on the Island
	1973 Songs My Mother Taught Me
	1974 Blown Figures
	1977 Ladies and Escorts
	1979 Latakia
	1981 Real Mothers
	1981 Two in the Bush and Other Stories
	1984 Intertidal Life
	1986 Goodbye Harold, Good Luck
	1990 The Wild Blue Yonder Collection of thirteen short stories.
	1993 Graven Images
	1995 Coming Down From Wa
	1999 Isobel Gunn
	2001 The Path of Totality
	2005 Tattycoram
	2014 Local Customs
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Awards

• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • 1985 – Intertidal Life – Winner
  • 1991 – Wild Blue Yonder – Winner
  • 1996 – Coming Down From Wa – Winner
  • 2006 – Tattycoram – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1984 – Intertidal Life – Shortlisted
  • 1996 – Coming Down from Wa – Shortlisted

• Marian Engel Award
  • 1987 Winner

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Added 01 February 2006.
Updated 26 April 2014.