David Elias
{{short description|Canadian writer}}
{{About|the Canadian writer|Canadian curler by this name|Dave Elias}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = David Elias
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| birth_date = {{birth year|1949}}{{cite book|title=The Truth About The Barn|author=David Elias|publisher=Great Plains}}
| birth_place = Winkler, Manitoba
| occupation = writer
| period = 1990s–present
| nationality = Canadian
| notableworks =
| spouse = Brenda Sciberras{{cite web|title=David Elias|date=14 October 2020 |publisher=Manitoba Writers Guild|url=https://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/david-elias-my-manitoba-book-awards-experience/|accessdate=August 21, 2022}}
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| alma_mater = University of Manitoba{{cite web|title=David Elias|publisher=Canadian Books&Authors|url=http://www.canadianauthors.net/e/elias_david/|accessdate=August 21, 2022}}
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David Elias (born 1949) is a Canadian writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.{{cite news|title=Transgression into grace:David Elias's Sunday Afternoon|publisher=Mennonite Quarterly Review|author=Edna Froese|date=2008}}
Career
Elias was born in Winkler, Manitoba, in 1949 in a Mennonite home, a topic that often is addressed in his writing.{{cite web|title=A product of his landscape|publisher=The United|url=https://uniter.ca/view/a-product-of-his-landscape|accessdate=August 21, 2022}} He later moved to Winnipeg where he completed a degree in Philosophy and English from the University of Manitoba, and wrote his first collection of short stories called Crossing the Line in 1992.{{cite web|title=David Elias|publisher=Canadian Books&Authors|url=http://www.canadianauthors.net/e/elias_david/|accessdate=August 21, 2022}}{{cite book|title=Making Believe|author=Magdalene Redekop|publisher=University of Manitoba Press}}
Since then he has written six other works of fiction including Places of Grace (1997), Sunday Afternoon (2005), Waiting for Elvis (2009), Henry's Game (2012), Along the Border (2014), Elizabeth of Bohemia: A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen (2019) and one work of non-fiction called The Truth About the Barn.{{cite news|title=Free Press book reviewers pick top titles for 2020|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|date=December 19, 2020}}{{cite web|title=Part exploration, part memoir|publisher=Prairie Books Now|url=https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/part-exploration-part-memoir-david-eliass-latest-book-answers-the-riddle-of-why-barns-are-often-red|accessdate=August 21, 2022}} His novel Sunday Afternoon was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award as well as the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.{{cite web|title=David Elias|date=14 October 2020 |publisher=Manitoba Writers Guild|url=https://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/david-elias-my-manitoba-book-awards-experience/|accessdate=August 21, 2022}} Elizabeth of Bohemia was also nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.{{cite web|title=Online Book Launch|publisher=McNally Robinson|url=https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18012/David-Elias-Online-Book-Launch#.YwMHuS_728U}}
He is married to poet Brenda Sciberras. {{cite web|title=David Elias|date=14 October 2020 |publisher=Manitoba Writers Guild|url=https://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/david-elias-my-manitoba-book-awards-experience/|accessdate=August 21, 2022}}