Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Ann-Marie MacDonald, born in 1958, is a Canadian playwright, novelist and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an army base in in the former West Germany.

MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.

She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Chalmers Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, "Good night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)."

Works:

• Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Julliet 1990
• The Arab's Mouth - 1995
• Fall on Your Knees - 1996
• The Way the Crow Flies - 2003 (Short Listed for the Giller Prize)

She also appeared in the lesbian film Better than Chocolate.

See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian playwrights