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Linda Svendsen (born Vancouver, 1954) is a Canadian screenwriter and author.

Biography

She has lived in her birth city for most of her life.^{[citation needed]}

Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories.^{[citation needed]} Her stories were anthologized and published in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Night.^{[citation needed]} She won first prize in the American Short Story Contest in 1980, and was a three-time finalist for the O. Henry Awards.^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, she published a book called Marine Life, which was also translated into German ^[1] which was a finalist for the 1993 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.^[2] In 2000, Marine Life was adapted into a film starring Cybill Shepherd and Peter Outerbridge.^[3]

Svendsen wrote the television film adaptation of The Diviners, as well as the miniseries Human Cargo and the television film At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story.^{[citation needed]} She won a Gemini Award for the Human Cargo screenplay.^[4] She also teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.^{[citation needed]}

^ WorldCat. WorldCat. OCLC 464211019.
^ "BOOK PRIZE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED". Vancouver Sun, March 20, 1993.
^ "UBC prof's Marine Life now an Anne Wheeler film". Vancouver Sun, December 10, 1999.
^ "CBC". cbc.ca. 2003-12-09. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved 2010-01-21.

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