Warren Cariou

Warren Cariou

Warren Cariou is a writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. He received a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto (1998). In 1999 he published a book of short stories: "The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs" with Coteau Books. This was followed up in 2002 with his memoir "Lake of the Prairies", which gained him a wider audience. It won the 2002 Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography and was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize. In 2005 he served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is currently working on a novel titled "Exhaust". Cariou is married to the poet and literature professor Alison Calder.

Warren Cariou was one of three featured authors in Coming Attractions '95, and has had short stories appear in Stag Line: Stories by Men and Due West, both published by Coteau Books. As well, his fiction was awarded a CBC Literary Competition Prize in 1991.

He grew up on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, a place he describes beautifully in Lake of the Prairies. He has worked as a construction labourer, a technical writer and a political advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto and now teaches Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba.

Honours

* 2002 Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography
* 2005 Greifswald Canadian Studies Fellow in Residence, University of Greifswald, Germany


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