Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless , The Romantic , The White Bone , Mister Sandman , We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels , all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. In 1996 she...See more

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless , The Romantic , The White Bone , Mister Sandman , We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels , all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General's Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. In 1996 she received the Marian Engel Award, and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. Barbara Gowdy is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Toronto. See less