Dianne Warren's mother grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and worked in Ottawa during the 1940s.
12 Facts About Dianne Warren
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Dianne Warren's parents met in Ottawa after the war, married, had two babies, and then moved to Saskatchewan.
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Dianne Warren spent as much time as possible with her grandparents on the farm and grew up loving the prairie landscape.
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Dianne Warren studied art at university and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts.
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Dianne Warren continued writing during those years, although in isolation and without the benefit of mentors or writing friends.
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Dianne Warren took some writing classes through the English Department at her local university, and met several published and emerging writers that remain friends and colleagues to this day.
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Dianne Warren was invited to join a writing group called The Bombay Bicycle Club and the diligence with which its members approached the art of literary critique set her on the path to becoming a published writer.
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Dianne Warren's fiction has appeared in anthologies such as The Old Dance, Fire Beneath the Cauldron and Concrete Forest.
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Dianne Warren has a soft spot for Bad Luck Dog because it won the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award about the same moment that Joe Carter hit the home run that won the Toronto Blue Jays the World Series.
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Dianne Warren wrote three stage plays in those years, all of which were produced by 25th Street Theatre in Saskatchewan.
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Dianne Warren won the National Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and the Western Magazine Award for Fiction.
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Dianne Warren published her first novel, Cool Water, in 2010.