Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer whose

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, ''Stolen,'' was a longlisted nominee for the

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in 2006. Born in 1978 in

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, she was educated at the

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and the

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. ''Stolen'' also received two honors from the Saskatchewan Book Awards: Best First Novel and the Saskatoon Book Award, and was nominated for the

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. Lapointe was also named Emerging Writer of 2007 by the

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. Her second novel, ''Whitetail Shooting Gallery'', was published in 2013.

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Annette Lapointe became a reviewer at ''New York Journal of Books'' in 2018

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