Ann Ireland (1953–2018) was a Canadian

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author who published five novels between 1985 and 2018. Her first novel, ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi'' (1985), was the winner of the Seal $50,000 1st Novel Award. She also wrote 1996's ''The Instructor'', which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, and 2002's ''Exile'', which was shortlisted for the

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and the Rogers Writers' Trust fiction prize.

Life

Ireland was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the

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, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of

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and for many years, up until the time of her death, was a writing instructor and the coordinator of the Writing Workshops Department at the Chang School of

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in Toronto. Her 1985 novel, ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi'', was the basis for the 1991 feature film '' The Pianist''. Her final novel, 2018's ''Where's Bob?'', was published in May 2018, shortly before her death of

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at the age of 65.

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