Annette Lapointe

{{short description|Canadian writer (born 1978)}}

{{Infobox writer

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1978}}

| birth_place = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

| language = English

| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|

• University of Saskatchewan
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• University of Manitoba

}}

| notableworks = Stolen (2006)

| awards =

}}

Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Stolen was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Manitoba.[http://www.anvilpress.com/Authors/annette-lapointe Annette Lapointe] author profile at Anvil Press.

Stolen also won two awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards, for best first novel and the Saskatoon Book Award,[http://www.bookawards.sk.ca/awards-history/awards-by-year.html#div_year_2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards, 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911005849/http://www.bookawards.sk.ca/awards-history/awards-by-year.html#div_year_2006 |date=September 11, 2011 }} and was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/madeleine-thien-wins-canada-s-first-novel-award-for-certainty-1.671387 "Madeleine Thien wins Canada's first novel award for Certainty"]. CBC News, October 5, 2007. Lapointe was also named Emerging Writer of 2007 by the Canadian Authors Association.[http://www.canauthors.org/awards/booktv.html Emerging Writers Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806095534/http://www.canauthors.org/awards/booktv.html |date=2011-08-06 }}, Canadian Authors Association.

Her second novel, Whitetail Shooting Gallery, was published in 2013.