Diana Wieler
Canadian writer of children's books
Diana Wieler (born October 14, 1961) is a Canadian writer of children's books.[1]
The daughter of Jean Florence Zebrasky and Heinz Egon Petrich,[2] she was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was educated there and in Calgary, Alberta. She attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, taking a program in media arts. She worked in radio in Calgary and then for a newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She returned to Winnipeg where she now lives.[3][4]
She married Larry Wieler; the couple has one son.[3]
Selected books
- Last Chance Summer (1986)
- Bad Boy (1991), received the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award[3]
- RanVan the Defender (1993), received a Mr. Christie's Book Award[3]
- RanVan: A Worthy Opponent (1995), was a finalist for a Governor General's Award[5]
- To the Mountains By Morning (1995)
References
Children's literature portal
- ^ The Storymakers: Writing Children's Books : 83 Authors Talk about Their Work. Canadian Children's Book Centre. 2000. pp. 160–61. ISBN 1551381087.
- ^ New, William H (2002). Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Springer. pp. 1212–13. ISBN 0802007619.
- ^ a b c d Holmes, Gillian (1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press. p. 1078. ISBN 0920966551.
- ^ a b "Diana Wieler". Kaleidoscope 6.
- ^ "Canada Council Announces Finalists for 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards". CM Magazine. II (3). Manitoba Library Association. November 3, 1995.
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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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