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Judith Thompson
Judith Thompson is the author of The Crackwalker, White Biting Dog, I Am Yours, Lion in the Streets, Sled, Perfect Pie, Habitat, Capture Me, and Enoch Ardenin the Hope of Shelter. She has written two feature films, Lost and Delirious and Perfect Pie, as well as television movies and radio drama. Judith has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for two of her books, White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2007 was awarded the prestigious Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Her recent plays include Palace of the End and Such Creatures. She’s also the creator of the documentary dramas Body & Soul and The Grace Project: Sick, the latter premiered in 2011 at the NEXT Stage Festival in Toronto and was nominated for two Dora Awards. Palace of the End won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding new play plus an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for best writing by a female playwright in English. It has been produced in many languages all around the world. She is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and currently lives with her husband and five children in Toronto.
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