Mark Sinnett

{{Short description|Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer}}

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| birth_place = England

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| occupation = Poet, novelist, short story writer

| period = 1990s-present

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = The Landing, The Border Guards, The Carnivore

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Mark Sinnett is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer.[http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_mark_sinnett "Ten Questions with Mark Sinnett"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014022/http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_mark_sinnett |date=2013-12-03 }}. Open Book Toronto, January 5, 2010. Originally from England, Sinnett moved to Canada as a teenager in 1980. He won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1998 for his poetry collection The Landing,[http://poets.ca/contests-awards/gerald-lampert/ Gerald Lampert Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204070710/http://poets.ca/contests-awards/gerald-lampert/ |date=December 4, 2013 }}. League of Canadian Poets. and the Toronto Book Award in 2010 for his novel The Carnivore.[http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-culture/2010/10/15/torontos-book-of-the-year-is-mark-sinnetts-the-carnivore/ "Toronto’s book of the year is Mark Sinnett’s The Carnivore"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015100/http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-culture/2010/10/15/torontos-book-of-the-year-is-mark-sinnetts-the-carnivore/ |date=December 3, 2013 }}. Toronto Life, October 15, 2010. He was a shortlisted finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2005 for his novel The Border Guards.