After (Chalifour book)

For other uses, see After (disambiguation).

2005 non-fiction book by Francis Chalifour

After

First edition cover of Canadian release

Author| Francis Chalifour
Subject| Suicide
Genre| Non-fiction
Publisher| Tundra Books

Publication date

| October 11, 2005
Publication place| Canada
Media type| Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages| 256 pp.
ISBN| 9780887767050

After is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writer Francis Chalifour, first published in October 2005 by Tundra Books. In the book, the author narrates his pain and confusion as he grieved his father's death by suicide. Judith Miller, an award judge for the Edna Staebler Award called After, "deeply moving" saying, "We enjoyed the lyricism of his language and his strong sense of character."[1]

## Awards and honours

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After received the 2006 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".[1] The book was also nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2005.[2]

## See also

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* List of Edna Staebler Award recipients

## References

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1. ^ a b Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012
2. ^ Tundra Books, After Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, About the Book, Awards, Retrieved 11/27/2012

## External links

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* Tundra Books, Francis Chalifour, Artist Spotlight, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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Winners of the Edna Staebler Award

1990s|

* Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
* Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
* Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
* Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
* Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
* George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
* Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
* Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
* Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)

2000s|

* Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
* Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
* Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
* Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
* Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
* Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
* Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
* Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
* Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
* Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)

2010s|

* John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
* Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
* Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
* Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
* Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
* Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
* Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
* Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
* Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
* Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)

2020s|

* Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020)
* Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021)
* Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022)
* Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)

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