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Birdsell, Sandra
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Sandra Birdsell was born and raised in Manitoba the 5th of 10 children.
She began publishing in 1982 at the age of 40 and has since published 3 books of short fiction, and 3 novels, including; Missing Child, The Town That Floated Away, The Two-Headed Calf, The Chrome Suite, Ladies of the House and Night Travellers
Birdsell was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, for The Two-Headed Calf, in 1997. She was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, for The Chrome Suite.
Birdsell won the Marian Engel Award, the Writers' Development Trust, for major contribution to literature in 1993, the McNally Robinson Best Book of the Year, for The Chrome Suite in 1993, as well as the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, for The Missing Child in 1990.
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