Teresa Toten
Canadian writer (born 1955)
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| Born | (1955-10-13) October 13, 1955 (age 68) |
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| Genre | Young adult fiction |
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Teresa Toten (born October 13, 1955) is a Canadian writer.[1]
The daughter of a Canadian father and a Croatian mother, she was born in Zagreb and left with her parents for Canada on the day she was born. They settled in Delhi; her father died when she just seven months old. Two or three years later, she moved with her mother to Toronto, the first of many moves during her childhood. Toten received a BA and then an MA in political science from the University of Toronto. She married and moved to Montreal. She did some broadcasts for Radio Canada International there. The couple moved to Ottawa where they spent seven years before moving to Toronto. They had two daughters there and Toten first started writing. They later moved to New York City, later returning to Toronto.[1]
Toten has also reviewed children's books for Quill & Quire magazine.[2]
Selected works[2]
- The Only House (1995), finalist for a Ruth Schwartz Award
- The Game (2001), finalist for a Governor General's Award, named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association, on the Best List of Voice of Youth Advocates magazine
- Me and the Blondes, young adult novel (2006), finalist for a Governor General's Award and for a Young Adult Book Award by the Canadian Library Association
- Piece by Piece: Stories about Fitting into Canada, anthology edited by Teresa Toten (2010)
- The Taming (2012), with Eric Walters
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013), received the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
References
- ^ a b Jenkinson, Dave. "Teresa Toten". Canadian Review of Materials.
- ^ a b "Teresa Toten". Transatlantic Agency.
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- Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army (1987)
- Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic (1988)
- Diana Wieler, Bad Boy (1989)
- Michael Bedard, Redwork (1990)
- Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks (1991)
- Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes (1992)
- Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (1993)
- Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994)
- Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (1995)
- Paul Yee, Ghost Train (1996)
- Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming (1997)
- Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (1998)
- Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
- Deborah Ellis, Looking for X (2000)
- Arthur Slade, Dust (2001)
- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002)
- Glen Huser, Stitches (2003)
- Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004)
- Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (2005)
- William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage (2006)
- Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer (2007)
- John Ibbitson, The Landing (2008)
- Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009)
- Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing (2010)
- Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011)
- Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012)
- Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013)
- Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014)
- Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth (2015)
- Martine Leavitt, Calvin (2016)
- Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017)
- Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018)
- Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky (2019)
- Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches (2020)
- Philippa Dowding, Firefly (2021)
- Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022)
- Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything (2023)
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