Caroline Adderson

Caroline Adderson was born on September 9, 1963 in Edmonton, Alberta.[1] She studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving a degree in education in 1982.

Her first short story collection, Bad Imaginings (1993), was nominated for the Governor General's Award and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Sitting Practice (2003), also won the award. Adderson has won the CBC Literary Competition three times.[2] In 2006, she received the Marian Engel Award, given annually to an outstanding Canadian female writer in mid-career in recognition of her body of work.[2]

• 1993 – Nominee, Governor General's Award, for Bad Imaginings[1]
• 1994 – Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Bad Imaginings[1]
• 1999 – Shortlisted, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, for A History of Forgetting[1]
• 2000 – Shortlisted, Ethel Wilson Prize, for A History I of Forgetting[1]
• 2003 – Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Sitting Practice[1]
• 2006 – Marian Engel Award[1]
• 2006 – Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize for the short story collection Pleased to Meet You[1]

• W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 9.
• Records of Caroline Adderson are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
• Adderson at Writers' Union of Canada: CV, Publications, Awards