Sheree-Lee Olson
{{Short description|Canadian novelist, poet and journalist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|12|11}}
| birth_place = Picton, Ontario, Canada
| occupation = Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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| genre = Literature, Poetry, Non-fiction
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Sheree-Lee Olson (born December 11, 1954) is a Canadian novelist, poet and journalist.
Biography
She was born in Picton, Ontario on the shores of Lake Ontario and grew up across Canada and in Europe, moving frequently with her family to her father's military postings. Eventually she earned degrees in visual art (York), philosophy (Leuven, in Belgium) and journalism (Ryerson). She was an editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, from 1985 to 2013.
Olson's poetry and fiction can be found in Descant and The Antigonish Review. Her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail and Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell The Truth About Motherhood (2007).http://www.keyporter.com/BookDetail.aspx?ISBN=1552639118 Key Porter Books
In 2007-08 she was the Webster/McConnell Fellow in the Canadian Journalism Fellowships Program at Massey College, University of Toronto.https://www.utoronto.ca/massey/journalism/pastfellows.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517134357/http://www.utoronto.ca/massey/journalism/pastfellows.html |date=2006-05-17 }} Massey College
Her first novel, Sailor Girl, was published in 2008 by Porcupine's Quill.{{cite web |url=http://porcupinesquill.ca/bookinfo3.php?index=225 |title=The Porcupine's Quill | Book Listing | Sailor Girl |access-date=2010-08-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925083735/http://porcupinesquill.ca/bookinfo3.php?index=225 |archive-date=2009-09-25 }} Porcupine's Quill Press It got attention across Canada and received several favourable reviews, including those on CBC Radio One Talking Bookshttp://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2008/07/its_anchors_away_on_talking_bo_1.html CBC Radio One: Talking Books panel discussion about Sailor Girl, June 21, 2008 and in The Globe and Mail.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080628.BKSAIL28/TPStory/Entertainment/Books/ Review of Sailor Girl in The Globe and Mail, June 28, 2008 A review in Canadian Literature journal concludes "Olson has announced herself as one of the new bright lights in Canadian literature."{{cite web |url=http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=14971 |title=Review of Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson | Canadian Literature |access-date=2010-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920095307/http://canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=14971 |archive-date=2010-09-20 }} Canadian Literature, "New Voices Considered" by Caitlin Charman, accessed March 23, 2010
In 2011, Olson received a "Bookmark" - a plaque bearing a selection from a notable Canadian literary work - in Port Colborne at Lock 8 on the Welland Canal, site of a key scene in Sailor Girl. Project Bookmark Canada celebrates locally inspired writing by installing Bookmarks in situ.{{cite web |url=http://projectbookmarkcanada.ca/discover/bookmark-10-sailor-girl |title=#10 Sailor Girl — Project Bookmark Canada |access-date=2013-05-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131130035158/http://projectbookmarkcanada.ca/discover/bookmark-10-sailor-girl |archive-date=2013-11-30 }}
In 2013, producers Markham Street Films announced that Olson's Sailor Girl was under development as a feature film with director Anita Doron. The big screen adaption, with screenplay written by Johanna Schneller, begins filming in the summer of 2014.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/anita-doron-to-direct-film-version-of-sailor-girl/article12036234/ |title=Anita Doron to direct film version of Sheree-Lee Olson's Sailor Girl - the Globe and Mail |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=2017-09-11 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305021021/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/anita-doron-to-direct-film-version-of-sailor-girl/article12036234/ |url-status=dead }}
References
External links
- [http://www.sheree-leeolson.com/ Official site]
- [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070814.wlexcerpt14/BNStory/lifeFamily/home/?pageRequested=all "Like Father, Like Daughter," essay in The Globe and Mail, August 14, 2007]
- [http://www.keyporter.com/BookDetail.aspx?ISBN=1552639118 Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell The Truth About Motherhood]
- [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080602.wlsailorexcerpt02/BNStory/lifeMain/ Excerpt of Sailor Girl in The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002001959/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080602.wlsailorexcerpt02/BNStory/lifeMain |date=October 2, 2008 }}
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Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century Canadian novelists
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:Canadian people of Swedish descent
Category:People from Prince Edward County, Ontario
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:20th-century Canadian women writers
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers