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Allan Stratton
Allan
Stratton is a playwright
and novelist. His professional arts career began while he was still
in high school, when James Reaney published his play The Rusting
Heart in the respected literary magazine Alphabet. It was
broadcast on CBC radio in 1970.
Since then he has written
Rexy!, (1981 Chalmers Award, the Canadian Authors’ Association
Award, and the Dora Mavor Moore Award), Papers (Chalmers Award),
Bag Babies, Dracula, The 101 Miracles of Hope Chance,
Joggers, A Flush of Tories and the radio play When Father
Passed Away.
Allan headed the Drama Department
at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where he taught senior directing,
acting and playwriting. For the past few years, his focus has been fiction.
The results of this work include novels: The Phoenix Lottery,
Leslie’s Journal, Chanda’s Secrets and Chanda’s
Wars.
His work is published by Penguin
Books, Samuel French, the Riverbank Press, Annick Press, Deutscher Taschenburg
Verlag, Allen and Unwin, The Chicken House, Bayard Jeunesse, Asunaro
Shobo, Coach House Press and Playwrights Canada Press, and has been
anthologized by a number of others. He lives in Toronto with his partner,
three cats and any number of fish.
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