Myrna Dey is a Canadian writer, whose
debut novel
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''Extensions'' was a longlisted nominee for the 2011
Scotiabank Giller Prize
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.
["Myrna Dey's debut novel makes Giller Prize longlist"]
''Toronto Star
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'', September 6, 2011. It was the first novel ever named to the longlist through the award's new Readers' Choice program, which allowed the general public to nominate books for award consideration.
A native of
Calgary,
Alberta
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, Dey studied at the
University of Alberta
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and the
University of California, Berkeley
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. She currently lives in
Kamsack
Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada is a town in the Assiniboine River Valley, where the Whitesand River joins the Assiniboine River. It is northeast of Yorkton. Highway 8 and Highway 5 intersect in the town.
Coté First Nation is located north an ...
,
Saskatchewan
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with her husband, a dentist. She has published short stories and journalism in ''
Reader's Digest
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'', ''
Canadian Living
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History and profile
The magazine was created by Clem Compton-Smith and his business partner, ...
'', the ''
National Post
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'', ''
The Globe and Mail
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'' and ''
Maclean's
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''.
Dey was a 2014 semi-finalist in Chatelaine Magazine's "Write for Chatelaine Contest" with a poignant personal essay entitled "Into the Storm" about helping her husband to build a new reality in the wake of dementia.
Works
*''Extensions'' (2010)
References
External links
Myrna Deyat NeWest Press
Canadian women novelists
Writers from Calgary
Living people
Writers from Saskatchewan
People from Kamsack, Saskatchewan
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian women short story writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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