''A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri'' is a

non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autob ...

of his mother by the Canadian television host

Johnnie Walters John Leigh "Johnnie" Walters (February 24, 1933 — February 26, 2023) was a Canadian broadcaster and television personality known for his on-air improvisation and sense of humour. He is best known for his long affiliation with CKCO-TV in Kitchen ...

, written under his real name John Leigh Walters and published in January 2010 by

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. It re-tells the stories his mother described to him regarding her

immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as Permanent residency, permanent residents. Commuting, Commuter ...

to Canada in the 1920s. Walters gives his first person account using humor, and intrigue, to share his mother's expressed regards about her

depression era The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...

experiences.CBC News, October 13, 2010, Immigrant tale wins $10K creative non-fiction prize
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Awards and honours

''A Very Capable Life'' won the 2010 "

Edna Staebler Award The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer's "first or second published book ...

for

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".Faculty of Arts, October 12, 2010, Edna Staebler Award
, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/23/2012

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*AU Press, ''A Very Capable Life''
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