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1981-1987 (Creation)
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- Butala, Sharon
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Sharon Butala was born in 1940 and has lived all but six years of her life in Saskatchewan (33 years in the southwest of Saskatchewan) she resides now in Calgary. Sharon has one son and two grandchildren.
She received her B.A. and B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. Besides having been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies she has published sixteen books.
Amongst other honours Butala has won the Marian Engel Award for Women Writers in Mid-Career, 1986 Writers' Choice Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards and Western Magazine Awards. She has also won a Saskatchewan Writers Guild Member's Achievement Award, a Canadian Authors’ Award, Canada 125 Commemorative Medal, Queen's Jubilee Medal and the Centennial Medal. She initiated and chaired a committee to make the Wallace Stegner house available as a Writer/Artist’s residence. Butala has received two honorary doctorates and is an Officer in the Order of Canada.
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This collection contains the personal papers of Saskatchewan writer and teacher Sharon Butala. She
received her B.A. and B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. Besides having been published in
numerous periodicals and anthologies she has sent four books to print between 1984 and 1988. Amongst
other honours the author won the 1986 Writers' Choice award. Butala's efforts in diverse genres is reflected in her papers. She has written novels, short stories and plays.
This collection contains various drafts, notes and correspondence pertaining to Sweet Time, Country of the
Heart and other works. A notable aspect of the Butala papers is her substantial, correspondence. This includes letters from several writers, academics, organizations and others. In addition, numerous congratulatory notes from readers,
friends and associates have been included under the heading "General Correspondence."
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5 July 1988 (Creation), August 2009 (Revision)