Linda Svendsen
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Linda Svendsen (born Vancouver, 1954) is a Canadian screenwriter and author.
Biography
She has lived in her birth city for most of her life.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Her stories were anthologized and published in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Night.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She won first prize in the American Short Story Contest in 1980, and was a three-time finalist for the O. Henry Awards.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1992, she published a book called Marine Life, which was also translated into German [1] which was a finalist for the 1993 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.[2] In 2000, Marine Life was adapted into a film starring Cybill Shepherd and Peter Outerbridge.[3]
Svendsen wrote the television film adaptation of The Diviners, as well as the miniseries Human Cargo and the television film At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She won a Gemini Award for the Human Cargo screenplay.[4] She also teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ "BOOK PRIZE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED". Vancouver Sun, March 20, 1993.
- ↑ "UBC prof's Marine Life now an Anne Wheeler film". Vancouver Sun, December 10, 1999.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pages with script errors
- 1954 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- Writers from Vancouver
- Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
- Canadian women screenwriters
- Canadian people of Norwegian descent
- Canadian women academics
- Canadian women short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
- Canadian Screen Award winning writers
- Screenwriters from British Columbia