2010 memoir by John Leigh Walters
A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri non-fiction memoir of his mother by the Canadian television host Johnnie Walters , written under his real name John Leigh Walters and published in January 2010 by Athabasca University Press . It re-tells the stories his mother described to him regarding her immigration to Canada in the 1920s. Walters gives his first person account using humor, and intrigue, to share his mother's expressed regards about her depression era experiences.[ 2]
Awards and honours
A Very Capable Life won the 2010 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction ".[ 2] [ 3]
See also
References
^ Goodreads, A Very Capable Life
^ a b CBC News, October 13, 2010, Immigrant tale wins $10K creative non-fiction prize
^ Faculty of Arts, October 12, 2010, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2012-11-27 at the Wayback Machine Wilfrid Laurier University , Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/23/2012
External links
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John Leigh Walters , A Very Capable Life Helen Waldstein Wilkes , Letters from the Lost Joshua Knelman , Hot Art Carol Shaben , Into the Abyss Arno Kopecky , The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)Lynn Thomson , Birding with Yeats (2015)Ann Walmsley , The Prison Book Club (2016)Sonja Larsen , Red Star Tattoo (2017)Pauline Dakin , Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019) 2020s
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