Don Dickinson (born December 27, 1974) is a Canadian writer and actor, born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on December 27, 1947. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1991 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection Blue Husbands, and for the 1993 Books in Canada First Novel Award for his novel The Crew. Blue Husbands was also a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1992.

Dickinson has published one other short story collection and three novels. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia, he worked primarily as a school teacher in Lillooet, British Columbia. He served on the jury for the Governor General's Awards in 1996.

Don Dickinson

Works

Fighting the Upstream (1987) Blue Husbands (1991) The Crew (1993) Robbiestime (2000) Rag and Bone Man (2019)

Don Dickinson

References

Living people

Canadian male novelists

Canadian male short story writers

20th-century Canadian novelists

21st-century Canadian novelists

People from Lillooet

Writers from British Columbia

20th-century Canadian short story writers

21st-century Canadian short story writers

20th-century Canadian male writers

21st-century Canadian male writers

1947 births

Don Dickinson