Ann Ireland | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Author |
Language | English |
Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
Notable awards | Seal First Novel Award Governor General's Award (shortlisted) Rogers Writers' Trust Award (shortlisted) |
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Ann Ireland (born 1953) is a Canadian fiction author.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada and is now the coordinator of the Writing Workshops Department at the Chang School of Continuing Education Ryerson University in Toronto. Her 1985 novel, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, was the basis for the 1991 feature film The Pianist.