Diane Mavis Schoemperlen (born July 9, 1954) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University.

Her first novel, In the Language of Love (1994), is composed of one hundred chapters, each one based on one of the one hundred words in the Standard Word Association Test, which was used to measure sanity. There are chapters titled "Table," "Slow," "Cabbage," and "Scissors." In her second novel, Our Lady of the Lost and Found (2001), the narrator is visited by the Virgin Mary, and the two women spend one week cooking, cleaning, and shopping.

[edit] Bibliography

• Double Exposures, 1984 (ISBN 0-88910-280-5)
• Frogs & Other Stories, 1986 (ISBN 0-919627-38-2)
• Hockey Night in Canada, 1987 (ISBN 0-919627-56-0)
• The Man of My Dreams, 1990 (ISBN 0-7715-9973-0)
• Hockey Night in Canada & Other Stories, 1991 (ISBN 1-55082-003-6)
• In the Language of Love: A Novel in 100 Chapters, 1994 (ISBN 0-00-224373-3)
• Forms of Devotion, 1998 (ISBN 0-670-87696-8)
• Our Lady of the Lost and Found, 2001 (ISBN 0-14-200132-5)
• Red Plaid Shirt, 2002 (ISBN 0-00-200518-2)
• Names of the Dead : An Elegy for the Victims of September 11, 2004 (ISBN 0-670-03325-1)
• At a Loss for Words, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-00-200881-5)

[edit] Awards and nominations

• 1990 Governor General's Award for English Fiction: The Man of My Dreams (nominee)
• 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award: In the Language of Love (nominee)
• 1998 Governor General's Award for English Fiction: Forms of Devotion (winner)
• 2007 Marian Engel Award (winner)

[edit] External links

• Diane Schoemperlen's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

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