Thomas Wharton

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Thomas Wharton, PhD, (born 25 February 1963) is a Canadian novelist.

Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Wharton attended the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. He was a student of Rudy Wiebe.

Wharton's first book, Icefields (1995), was awarded the “Best First Book” in the Canada and Caribbean division of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Writers Guild of Alberta “Best First Book Award”, and the Banff Book Festival grand prize.

His second book, Salamander (2002), won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Grant MacEwan Author's Award (2002). It was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

The Logogryph was short listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. [1]

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  1. ^ CBC: Wharton shortlisted for richest literary prize.

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