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Sharon Butala

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Sharon Butala


Born
in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 24, 1940


Sharon Butala (born Sharon Annette LeBlanc, August 24, 1940 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian writer and novelist.

Her first book, Country of the Heart, was published in 1984 and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award.

As head of the Eastend Arts Council she spearheaded the creation of the Wallace Stegner House Residence for Artists in which Wallace Stegner's childhood home was turned into a retreat for writers and artists.[14]

She lived in Eastend until Peter's death in 2007. She now lives in Calgary, Alberta.

She was shortlisted for the Governor General's award twice, once for fiction for Queen of the Headaches, and once for nonfiction for The Perfection of the Morning.

The Fall 2012 issue of Prairie Fire, entitled The Visionary Art o
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The Perfection of the Morni...

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Where I Live Now: A Journey...

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Season of Fury and Wonder

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Wild Rose

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The Girl in Saskatoon: A me...

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This Strange Visible Air: E...

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Wild Stone Heart: An Appren...

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Leaving Wisdom

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The Garden of Eden

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Luna

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“I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.”
Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awakening in Nature

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