Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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Born 14 Nov 1963
Activity 1994-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Gail Anderson-Dargatz is an award-winning Canadian writer, author of four novels and a collection of short stories. Her texts are typically set in small Canadian towns or in the countryside, with which her characters feel a deep bond, and written in a realistic style. Some, like

The Cure for Death by Lightning

(1996), incorporate elements of literary Gothic as well as magic interludes, and can be classified as gothic and/or magic realist texts.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz was born on November 14th 1963 at Kamloops (B.C.). Her early literary ambitions were encouraged by her mother. In her early twenties she worked as a reporter, photographer and cartoonist for the Salmon Arm Observer while writing fiction and submitting texts for competitions.Later, at the encouragement of the Canadian writer

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Citation: Rzepa, Agnieszka. "Gail Anderson-Dargatz". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 May 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5376, accessed 26 November 2024.]