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Her most recent novel, the russlander 2001, won the saskatchewan book award for fiction, the saskatchewan book award for book of the year, and the regina book award, and was a finalist for the giller prize. Robert zacharias is a banting postdoctoral fellow in the department of english language and literature at the university of waterloo, and a visiting scholar with the centre for diaspora and transnational studies at the university of toronto. He is the associate editor of the journal of mennonite studies, and coeditor, with smaro kamboureli, of shifting the ground of canadian literary studies. The event will also feature a reading by john weier.
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