Ann Diamond is a
Canadian
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poet
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short story
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writer
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, and
novelist
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Diamond's poetic tale, ''A Nun's Diary'', was adapted for theatre by Robert LePage and presented in Montreal and Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.
[Jane Koustas. ]
Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation
'. McGill-Queen's University Press; 2016. . p. 80–.
In 2014 Diamond wrote a memoir, ''The Man Next Door'', about her friend and neighbour
Leonard Cohen
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"Music experts reflect on legacy of Leonard Cohen, 'a national treasure'"
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Selected works
;Poetry
* "Lil" (1977)
* "A Nun's Diary" (1984)
* "Terrorist Letters" (1992)
;Short stories
* "Snakebite" (1989)
* "Evil Eye" (1994) (winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction)
;Novels
* "Mona's Dance" (1988)
* "Dead white males" (2000)
* "Static Control" (2005)
;Memoir
* "My Cold War" (2007)
See also
*List of Canadian poets
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*Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
*Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright
* José Acquelin ...
*List of Canadian writers
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* List of Quebec writers
*Geist (magazine)
''Geist'' is a Canadian literary magazine published quarterly since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist (meaning "mind" or "spirit").
''Geist'' was co-founded in 1990 by Stephen Osborne and Mary Schendlinger in their li ...
*Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
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References
External links
Author's web siteQWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language authorsAnn Diamond
''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', Historica Canada
Archived
at the Wayback Machine.
Ann Diamond
at ''Geist
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Ann Diamond with John Asfour
1951 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian novelists
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian women novelists
Canadian women poets
Concordia University alumni
Canadian women short story writers
Writers from Montreal
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
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