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Anne Fleming

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Anne Fleming

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1964-04-25 (Toronto, Ontario)
Nationality
カナダ, Canadian
Languages
English
Residence History
Toronto, Ontario → British Columbia

Career

Occupations
fiction writer, university instructor
Active Years
1998-2024
Affiliations
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Victoria School of Writing

Education

University of Waterloo
Department of English
Country: Canada
Geograpy program then switched to English studies

Awards

National Magazine Award
Work: Story in The New Quarterly
Organization: National Magazine Awards
Result: winner
Governor General's Awards
1999
Work: Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Category: フィクション
Result: finalist
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
1999
Work: Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Result: finalist
Danuta Gleed Award
1999
Work: Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Result: finalist
Giller Prize
2024
Work: Curiosities
Result: shortlist

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Pool-Hopping and Other Stories

1998 short stories

Collection of short stories

Anomaly

2005 novel

Novel

Gay Dwarves of America

2012 novel

The Goat

2017 novel

Curiosities

2024 novel

Shortlisted for 2024 Giller Prize

Bibliography

  • Pool-Hopping and Other Stories (1998)
  • Anomaly (2005)
  • Gay Dwarves of America (2012)
  • poemw (2016)
  • The Goat (2017)
  • Curiosities (2024)

Legacy

Canadian fiction writer known for short stories and novels, shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2024. Teaches at UBC Okanagan.

Trivia

  • Played defense for the Vancouver Voyagers women's hockey team.
  • Plays the ukulele.
  • Has a partner and child.
  • Great-grandfather was mayor of Toronto.
  • Toronto features prominently in her writing.