Ann Ireland

Ann Ireland
Born(1953-05-19)May 19, 1953
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedAugust 23, 2018(2018-08-23) (aged 65)
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Notable awardsSeal First Novel Award
Governor General's Award (shortlisted)
Rogers Writers' Trust Award (shortlisted)
Website
www.annireland.ca

Ann Ireland (1953–2018) was a Canadian fiction author who published five novels between 1985 and 2018.[1] 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 2002 Governor General's Awards and the Rogers Writers' Trust fiction prize.[2]

  1. ^ Ann Ireland Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, weir.ca, Retrieved 14 February 2011
  2. ^ "Ann Ireland, award-winning Toronto novelist and teacher, dies at age 65". Toronto Star. 28 August 2018.