Riel Nason
{{Short description|Canadian novelist and artist}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Riel Nason
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| birth_place = Hawkshaw, New Brunswick, Canada
| occupation = Novelist, quilter
| period = 2010s-present
| nationality = Canadian
| notableworks = The Town That Drowned, The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt
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Riel Nason is a Canadian novelist.[http://www.canadianliving.com/life/community/riel_nason_novelist.php "Riel Nason: Novelist"]. Canadian Living, December 2013. Riel Nason lives in Quispamsis, New Brunswick. Nason is also a textile artist (quilter) and has had several exhibits of her original work as well as writing two books on the topic, Modern Selvage Quilting and Sew a Modern Halloween. Her books Disaster at the Highland Games and Catastrophe at the Christmas Celidh draw on her experiences as a Highland Dance teacher.{{cite web |title=Riel Nason Biography |url=https://www.bradanpress.com/book-author/riel-nason/ |website=Bradan Press |access-date=14 May 2025}}
Works and Awards
Her debut novel The Town That Drowned, published in 2011 by Goose Lane Editions, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe in 2012.[https://nationalpost.com/afterword/riel-nasons-the-town-that-drowned-wins-regional-commonwealth-book-prize "Riel Nason's The Town That Drowned wins regional Commonwealth Book Prize"]. National Post, May 22, 2012. It was also awarded the 2012 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, was shortlisted for several other literary awards, and was longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her 2nd novel, All The Things we Leave Behind, was published in 2016, also by Goose Lane Editions. Her first children's book, The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, was published in 2020 by Tundra Books. In 2021, her book, Disaster at the Highland Games had a Scottish Gaelic edition published that was shortlisted for the Best book for Children/Youth at the 2022 Gaelic Literature Awards.{{cite web |title=Gaelic Books |url=https://www.gaelicbooks.org/the-gaelic-literature-awards-2022-shortlists?lang=en |website=Gaelic Books |access-date=13 May 2025}} The English version of Disaster at the Highland Games also won the Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing at the 2022 New Brunswick Book Awards.{{cite web |title=2022 New Brunswick Book Awards Winners |url=https://thefiddlehead.ca/content/congratulations-winners-7th-annual-new-brunswick-book-awards |website=The Fiddlehead |access-date=13 May 2025}}
Bibliography
- The Town That Drowned (2011, {{ISBN|9780864926401}})
- All The Things We Leave Behind (2016) {{ISBN|9780864920416 }})
- Modern Selvage Quilting (2016) {{ISBN|9781617450846}})
- Sew a Modern Halloween (2017) {{ISBN|9781617454837}})
- The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt (2020){{ISBN|9781774887189}})
- Waiting Under Water (2020){{ISBN|9781443175142}})
- Disaster at the Highland Games (2021){{ISBN|9781778610158}})
- Catastrophe at the Christmas Celidh (2023){{ISBN|9781778610271}})
- The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise (coming August 2025) {{cite web |title=The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221996605-the-little-ghost-quilt-s-winter-surprise |website=Goodreads |access-date=13 May 2025}}
References
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External links
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Category:21st-century Canadian novelists
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:People from Kings County, New Brunswick
Category:Canadian writers of young adult literature
Category:Canadian women writers of young adult literature
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers
Category:Canadian women columnists
Category:Canadian textile artists
Category:Novelists from New Brunswick
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