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By (author): Sarah Klassen

Nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).Journey from Zaire to Winnipeg to Ukraine and through the human spirit with an arrangement of characters and stories living in seasons but whose passages are perennial. Klassen’s characters transcend their variouscircumstances to explore personal experiences with an awareness of larger social issues–contemporary and historical.

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Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Manitoba’s Interlake. Now retired, she previously enjoyed a career teaching high school English. An accomplished traveller, poet, and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the High Plains Award for Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, and Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History. The Tree Of LifeI is her sixth poetry collection.