FEATURE AUTHOR
Angie Abdou
Angie Abdou moved to Fernie in the
late 1990s. Though she makes her home
partly in Alberta now, as a Professor
of Creative Writing at Athabasca
University, she is still active in Fernie’s
literary community. She is an awardwinning author who published her first
book Anything Boys Can Do in 2006 and
her first novel, The Bone Cage, in 2007.
The Bone Cage became the inaugural
One Book One Kootenay. With
that honour came a 16-library tour
throughout the East and West Kootenay,
which Angie did with a toddler and baby
in tow. The Bone Cage went on to be
a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011,
where it was championed by NHL star
Georges Laraque. In 2012, The Bone
Cage was named MacEwan Book of the
Year, putting Angie in a prestigious group
of authors, including Margaret Atwood
and Yann Martel and Michael Ondaatje.
Next, Angie published a satire of ski
culture called The Canterbury Trail. It
won an IPPY gold medal (an award for
independent publishing) and was named
a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book of
the Year.
Angie’ s most recent novel is Between
(2014, Arsenal Press). It explores
the lives of working mothers and
Filipino nannies and has been reviewed
extremely favourably by critics in The
Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg
Review, and Vancouver Sun, as well as
by the book industry’s publication The
Quill and Quire. It launched in the US
in April 2015, and New York’s Library
Journal listed it as a Top 13 Indie Pick for
Spring 2015. Between was named a
“Best of 2014” book by PRISM
Magazine, 49th Shelf, and The Vancouver
Sun. Angie’s novel-in-progress is a ghost
story set in the Rocky Mountains. She
is a co-organizer of the Booked! Fernie
Writers’ Series.
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