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Carol Windley


Born
in Tofino, Canada
June 18, 1947


Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

She followed in 1998 with her first novel, Breathing Underwater. In 2002, Windley won a Western Magazine Award for "What Saffi Knows", which later featured as the opening story in her short story collection Home Schooling (2006). That book was shortlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Windley has also taught creative writing at Malaspina University-College. ...more

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Average rating: 3.13 · 1,129 ratings · 216 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Midnight Train to Prague
3.10 avg rating — 1,018 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions
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Home Schooling
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Breathing Under Water
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Visible Light
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What Saffi Knew
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