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Paulette Jiles

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Paulette Jiles
Jiles at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born	Paulette Kay Jiles (1943-04-04) April 4, 1943 (age 81) Salem, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Poet memoirist novelist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Missouri–Kansas City
Notable works	News of the World (2016)
Notable awards	Governor General's Award (1984) Pat Lowther Award (1985) Gerald Lampert Award (1985)
Spouse	Jim Johnson (divorced)

Paulette Kay Jiles (aka Paulette K. Jiles, Paulette Jiles-Johnson) (born April 4, 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist.

Personal life

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Paulette Kay Jiles was born in 1943 in Salem, Missouri. She attended college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, graduating in 1968^[1] with a major in Romance Languages.^[2] Jiles moved to Toronto, Canada in 1969, where she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation^[2] and, subsequently, helped set up native language, FM radio stations with indigenous peoples in the far north of Ontario and Quebec for the next 10 years.^[3] In the process, she learned the Ojibwe language spoken by the Anishinaabeg peoples in Ontario and elsewhere.^[2]

After marrying Jim Johnson, she moved with him to San Antonio in 1991.^[4] After several years of travel, including living in Mexico, the couple resettled in San Antonio in 1995, buying a house in the historical district.^[2] Since her divorce in 2003, Jiles has lived on a 36-acre ranch near Utopia, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.^[4]

Writing career

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Her 2016 novel News of the World was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.^[5]

Selected bibliography

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Waterloo Express (1973)
Celestial Navigation (1984, winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award)
The Golden Hawks (Where We Live) (1985)
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola (1986, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize)
The Late Great Human Road Show (1986, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
The Jesse James Poems (1988)
Blackwater (1988)
Song to the Rising Sun (1989)
Cousins (1992)
Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (1995)
North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps (1995)
Enemy Women (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)
Stormy Weather (2007)
The Color of Lightning (2009)
Lighthouse Island (2013)
News of the World (2016)
Simon the Fiddler (2020)
Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance (2023)

References

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^ "October 2016 Archives". UMKC Alumni. UMKC Alumni Association. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Jiles, Paulette. "Author's Page". amazon.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

^ Salaman, Jeff (15 September 2016). "True Western". texasmonthly.com. Texas Monthly. Retrieved 7 October 2017.

^ ^a ^b Cook-Monroe, Nancy (4 October 2016). "Former San Antonian Paulette Jiles Nominated for National Book Award". The Rivard Report. (therivardreport.com). Retrieved 7 October 2017.

^ The New Yorker (6 October 2016). "The 2016 National Book Awards Finalists". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.

External links

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Paulette Jiles's blog.

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
1980s	F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981) Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982) David Donnell, Settlements (1983) Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984) Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985) Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987) Erín Moure, Furious (1988) Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
1990s	Margaret Avison, No Time (1990) Don McKay, Night Field (1991) Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992) Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993) Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994) Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995) E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997) Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998) Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s	Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000) George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001) Roy Miki, Surrender (2002) Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003) Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004) Anne Compton, processional (2005) John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006) Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007) Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008) David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s	Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010) Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011) Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012) Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013) Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014) Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015) Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016) Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017) Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018) Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
2020s	Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020) Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021) Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022) Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)

Recipients of the Gerald Lampert Award

Elizabeth Allan (1981)
Edna Alford and Abraham Boyarsky (1982)
Diana Hartog (1983)
Jean McKay and Sandra Birdsell (1984)
Paulette Jiles (1985)
Joan Fern Shaw (1986)
Rosemary Sullivan (1987)
Di Brandt (1988)
Sarah Klassen (1989)
Steven Heighton (1990)
Diana Brebner (1991)
Joanne Arnott (1992)
Elisabeth Harvor and Roberta Rees (1993)
Barbara Klar and Ilya Tourtidis (1994)
Keith Maillard (1995)
Maureen Hynes (1996)
Marilyn Dumont (1997)
Mark Sinnett (1998)
Stephanie Bolster (1999)
Shawna Lemay (2000)
Anne Simpson (2001)
Aislinn Hunter (2002)
Kathy Mac (2003)
Adam Getty (2004)
Ray Hsu (2005)
Suzanne Buffam (2006)
Steven Price (2007)
Alex Boyd (2008)
Katia Grubisic (2009)
James Langer (2010)
Anna Swanson (2011)
Sarah Mi-Yei Tsiang (2012)
Gillian Savigny (2013)
Murray Reiss (2014)
Kayla Czaga (2015)
Ben Ladouceur (2016)
Ingrid Ruthig (2017)
Emily Nilsen (2018)
Tess Liem (2019)
Heather Birrell (2020)
Bertrand Bickersteth (2021)
Alisha Kaplan (2022)
Matthew James Weigel (2023)

Recipients of the Pat Lowther Award

M. Travis Lane (1981)
Rona Murray (1982)
Rhea Tregebov (1983)
Bronwen Wallace (1984)
Paulette Jiles (1985)
Erín Moure (1986)
Heather Spears (1987)
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1988)
Heather Spears (1989)
Patricia Young (1990)
Karen Connelly (1991)
Kate Braid (1992)
Lorna Crozier (1993)
Diana Brebner (1994)
Beth Goobie (1995)
Lorna Crozier (1996)
Marilyn Bowering (1997)
Barbara Nickel (1998)
Hilary Clark (1999)
Esta Spalding (2000)
Sharon Thesen (2001)
Heather Spears (2002)
Dionne Brand (2003)
Betsy Struthers (2004)
Roo Borson (2005)
Sylvia Legris (2006)
Sina Queyras (2007)
Anne Simpson (2008)
Alice Major (2009)
Karen Solie (2010)
Evelyn Lau (2011)
Susan Goyette (2012)
Rachel Rose (2013)
Alexandra Oliver (2014)
Sina Queyras (2015)
Lorna Crozier (2016)
Sue Sinclair (2017)
Lesley Belleau (2018)
Klara du Plessis (2019)
Chantal Gibson (2020)
Noor Naga (2021)
Selina Boan (2022)
Gillian Sze (2023)

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