Anita Daher Explained

Anita Daher
Birth Place:	Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Occupation:	Author

Anita Daher is an author, screenwriter, producer, and actor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.^[1] She has worked in book publishing since 1995 and has published in print, audio and e-book format in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She is also an actor on stage and screen. In 2020, she produced and hosted an author interview series called Made in Manitoba: Stories from Home.

Daher was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, where she spent her childhood and the first two decades of her adult years moving every few years from one part of the country to the next. This wandering may have influenced her writing style. Her work is known for having a strong sense of "place."

Daher sat as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada from 2019-2021, the first two-year term Chair in the Union's history.

Bibliography

• Flight from Big Tangle (2002)
• Flight from Bear Canyon (2004)
• Racing for Diamonds (2007)
• Spider's Song (2007)
• Two Foot Punch (2007)
• Poachers in the Pingos (2008)
• On the Trail of the Bushman (2009)
• The Wilderness Cure (2012)
• Wager the Wonder Horse (2013)
• The Hustle (2013)
• Itty Bitty Bits (2013)
• Wonder Horse (2015)
• Forgetting How to Breathe (2018)
• You Don't Have to Die in the End (2020^[2])
• Peanut Butter and Chaos (2022)^[3]
• Peanut Butter and Pandemonium (2023)

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Awards

• Winner, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising New Writer, 2007^[4]
• Finalist, Spider's Song, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008^[5]
• Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008
• Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Hackmatack Award, 2009^[6]
• Long List, Mime, CBC Literary Prize, 2017 ^[7]
• Finalist, Forgetting How to Breathe, IODE Violet Downey Book Award, 2019 ^[8]
• Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Forest of Reading White Pine Award, 2021 ^[9]
• Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Manitoba Book Award, Best YA Novel, 2021 ^[10]
• Finalist, Peanut Butter and Chaos, Manitoba Young Readers Choice Sundog Award, 2024
• Finalist, Peanut Butter and Chaos, Red Cedar Award, 2024

External links

• Manitoba Writers Guild Profile
• Winnipeg International Writers Festival Biography
• Anita Daher official website
• https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anita-daher

Notes and References

1. Web site: Member Profile.
2. Web site: You Don't Have to die in the End | CM: Canadian Review of Materials.
3. https://www.greatplains.mb.ca/product/peanut-butter-and-chaos/
4. http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mwapa/award_hirsch.html The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
5. http://www.aquabooks.ca/wir.php Aqua Books Writer in Residence Program
6. http://www.publishers.ca/acp_update_2008_04_11.htm#Hackmatack_Childrens_Choice_Book_Award Association of Canadian Publishers
7. Web site: 28 writers make the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize longlist CBC Books.
8. Web site: IODE Violet Downey Book Award 2019 - Short List - IODE Canada . 7 March 2020 . 7 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190707235536/http://www.iode.ca/iode-violet-downey-book-award-2019---short-list.html . dead .
9. Web site: Here are the 2021 White Pine Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in Grades 9-12 CBC Books.
10. McNally Robinson Books for Young People (Older Category)