Ann Diamond is a

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. Diamond's poetic tale, ''A Nun's Diary'', was adapted for theatre by Robert LePage and presented in Montreal and Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille.Jane Koustas.
Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation
'. McGill-Queen's University Press; 2016. . p. 80–. In 2014 Diamond wrote a memoir, ''The Man Next Door'', about her friend and neighbour

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

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Selected works

;Poetry * "Lil" (1977) * "A Nun's Diary" (1984) * "Terrorist Letters" (1992) ;Short stories * "Snakebite" (1989) * "Evil Eye" (1994) (winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction) ;Novels * "Mona's Dance" (1988) * "Dead white males" (2000) * "Static Control" (2005) ;Memoir * "My Cold War" (2007)

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Author's web siteQWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language authorsAnn Diamond
''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', Historica Canada
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Geist ''Geist'' () is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Its semantic field corresponds to English ghost, spirit, mind, intellect. Some English translators resort to using "spirit/mind" or "spirit (mind)" to he ...

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Ann Diamond with John Asfour
1951 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian novelists Anglophone Quebec people Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets Concordia University alumni Canadian women short story writers Writers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers {{Canada-poet-stub

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