Marie Jakober

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Marie Jakober is an award-winning Canadian novelist.

Based in Calgary, Alberta, Jakober writes historical fiction and fantasy. Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua (1985) won the Writer's Guild of Alberta Novel Award in 1985. She received the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, in 2002, for her novel Only Call Us Faithful (2002). Her second Civil War novel, Sons of Liberty, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the Alberta Book Awards in 2006.

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The Mind Gods: A Novel of the Future (London: Macmillan, 1976; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976)
Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua (Vancouver: New Star, 1985)
A People in Arms (Vancouver: New Star, 1987)
High Kamilan: A Novel Calgary: Gullveig, 1993)
The Black Chalice (Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2000)
Only Call Us Faithful (New York: Forge, 2002)
Even The Stones (Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2004)
The Halifax Connection (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007)