Lois Braun | |
Birth Name: | Beverly Helen Lois Nickel |
Birth Date: | 1949 |
Birth Place: | Rosenfeld, Manitoba, Canada |
Occupation: | short story writer |
Period: | 1980s-present |
Notableworks: | A Stone Watermelon |
Lois Braun (born 1949) is a Canadian writer.[1] She was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1986 Governor General's Awards for her debut short story collection A Stone Watermelon published by Turnstone Press.[2]
Braun was born in Rosenfeld, Manitoba. Educated at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba, she worked as a school teacher in Altona until her retirement in 2003. She published three further collections of short stories, and won the Margaret Laurence Award from the Manitoba Book Awards in 2008 for The Penance Drummer.[3]