![]() Of it, The Guardian (UK) said, “Frances Itani doles out lucidity, empathy and poetry in crackling equal measures.” It was also chosen for Canada Reads-English and French, won the Kingston Reads Award, and was chosen as College Book of the Year by Grant MacEwan College.įrances’s next novel, Remembering the Bones, about a woman who suffers an accident en route to visit the Queen, earned her comparisons to Carol Shields and Marilynne Robinson. Since that day, she’s published twelve critically acclaimed and bestselling books. Her first novel, Deafening, won worldwide recognition it has been optioned for film, sold and translated in 17 countries, won a Commonwealth Award, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. When he asked her what she planned to do with herself on her return, she surprised herself by answering that she would write fiction.Īnd write it she has. ![]() In 1965, after a year of graduate nursing studies at Duke University in North Carolina, she visited her doctor for a physical before returning home. ![]() Frances Itani came to writing seemingly by impulse. ![]()
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