Michelle Butler Hallett, born 1971, is a Canadian writer from St. John's,

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who writes predominantly

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."'I want to start conversations': Why author Michelle Butler Hallett writes about disability"

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Newfoundland and Labrador, January 29, 2023. Her novel ''Constant Nobody'' was the winner of the

Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

at the 2022 Atlantic Book Awards. Her play ''Peter's Accent'' won the NL Arts & Letters,Dramatic Script in 2000. She published her debut short story collection ''The Shadow Side of Grace'' in 2006, and followed up in 2007 with her debut novel ''Double-blind''. Her novel '' This Marlowe'', a 2016 novel which imagined the final months of

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's life, was a longlisted nominee for the ReLit Award and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2017."David Huebert and Michelle Butler Hallett among the winners of 2022 Atlantic Book Awards"
CBC Books, June 13, 2022. Butler Hallett lives with

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, and has also written essays about disability.

Books

*''The Shadow Side of Grace'' - 2006 *''Double-blind'' - 2007 *''Sky Waves'' - 2008 *''Deluded Your Sailors'' - 2011 *''This Marlowe'' - 2016 *''Constant Nobody'' - 2021

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