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Mansel Robinson
Playwright
and fiction writer Mansel Robinson was born in Chapleau, Northern Ontario.
He has a BA in English from the University of Western Ontario and an
MA in English from Concordia University. He lives in Saskatoon.Mansel Robinson was the University
of Windsor writer in residence for 2003–2004. His plays include
Collateral Damange, The Heart As It Lived, Street Wheat, Ghost
Trains, Downsizing Democracy, Spitting Slag and, most
recently, Picking Up Chekhov, published by Scirocco Drama. They
have been produced in Ottawa, Kitchener, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Calgary.
A book of short fiction and poetry, Slag, was published to acclaim
in 1997.
Mansel is a winner of the City
of Regina Writing Award, Geist Magazine’s Award for Distance
Writing and is a two-time winner of Saskatchewan’s John V. Hicks Award.
He was writer in residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon
in 1999.
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