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Martine Leavitt

American novelist

Martine Leavitt (born ) is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.

Biography

Leavitt was born in in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College.[1] She has seven children, twenty-one grandchildren, and lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.

Martine Leavitt writes novels for young adults, most recently Buffalo Flats. Calvin () won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. My Book of Life by Angel () was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year.

Martine leavitt biography template Martine Leavitt is the author of award-winning books for young readers, including Calvin (winner of the Governor General's Award), My Book of Life by Angel (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year) and Keturah and Lord Death (finalist for the National Book Award.

Keturah and Lord Death () was a finalist for the National Book Award.

She teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, a short-residency MFA program, where she serves as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair.

Selected works

Novels

  • The Dragon's Tapestry ()
  • Prism Moon ()
  • The Taker's Key ()
  • The Dollmage ()
  • Tom Finder ()
  • Heck Superhero ()
  • Keturah and Lord Death ()
  • My Book of Life by Angel ()
  • Blue Mountain ()
  • Calvin ()
  • Buffalo Flats

Awards

References

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    Martine Leavitt is the author of award-winning books for young readers, including Calvin (winner of the Governor General's Award), My Book of Life by Angel (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year) and Keturah and Lord Death (finalist for the National Book Award.

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Interviews

External links

Winners of the Governor General's Award for young people's literature — text

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  • Michael Bedard, Redwork ()
  • Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks ()
  • Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes ()
  • Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets ()
  • Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me ()
  • Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro ()
  • Paul Yee, Ghost Train ()
  • Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming ()
  • Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree ()
  • Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day ()
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  • Deborah Ellis, Looking for X ()
  • Arthur Slade, Dust ()
  • Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl ()
  • Glen Huser, Stitches ()
  • Kenneth Oppel, Airborn ()
  • Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man ()
  • William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage ()
  • Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer ()
  • John Ibbitson, The Landing ()
  • Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years ()
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  • Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing ()
  • Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World ()
  • Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K.

    Larsen ()

  • Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B ()
  • Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies ()
  • Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth ()
  • Martine Leavitt, Calvin ()
  • Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves ()
  • Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster ()
  • Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky ()
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