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Roz Nay
Roz Nay is a Canadian writer. Personal life Nay and her husband moved to Canada when their two children were young. Writing career '' Our Little Secret'', her first novel, started as a short story she wrote when she took a creative writing course, at Selkirk College, in 2012. It was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and a Kobo Emerging Writer Award, and it won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller. In an interview with the ''Vancouver Sun'' Nay said she was a former high school teacher, and her teaching experience was one of the inspirations for ''Our Little Secret''. Following her work as a high school teacher Nay worked in child protection for the British Columbia Ministry of Families. Her work in child protection served as an inspiration for her second novel ''Hurry Home''. According to the ''Boundary Creek Times'' the success of her first book earned Nay a two-book deal. They wrote that Nay expected to publish ''Hurry Home "Hurry Home" is a song wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian People
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
