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Candace Sherk Savage (born December 2, 1949) is a Canadian non-fiction writer.


Early life

Candace Sherk was born in
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, Canada on December 2, 1949. Both of her grandmothers were born in the United States and married Canadian men. As her father was a school administrator, she moved throughout Alberta during her childhood.


Career

Savage began her journalism career as a news editor of Sun Color Press and later became an editorial assistant for Co-Operative Consumer. In the 1970s, Savage became a free-lance book editor with The Western Producer in Saskatoon, which piqued her interest in authoring books. In the 1970s, Savage moved to Saskatoon with her husband Arthur Savage. In 1977, she began to construct a biography on
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. After her husband died, Savage moved to Edmonton and Yellowknife before returning to Saskatoon with her daughter. From 1984 until 1986, she was the coordinator of information and education at the Science Institute of the Northwest Territories in
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, Canada. In the 1990s, she received the
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for her book "''Bird Brains,''" and the Science in Society Book Award from the Canadian Science Writers’ Association for her book ''"Aurora and Bird Brains.''" In 2002, her book "''Wizards''" won the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Award. In 2010, Savage was elected a Fellow of the
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. Two years later, Savage wrote a ''A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape,'' which she called a personal memoir of her growing interest in the natural and human history of southwestern Saskatchewan. The book won the 2012
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner re ...
. In 2019, while renovating her 1920s-era bungalow in Saskatoon, she discovered paraphernalia belonging to Ralph Blondin. This led her to research how Blondin's family, a Métis French-speaking family, dealt with White Supremacy and assimilated to survive. She eventually published her discoveries in a book titled "''Strangers in the House.''" In 2022, she was awarded the
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by the
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.Deborah Dundas
"Writers’ Trust 2022 book award winners collect $270,000 in prizes"
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'', November 2, 2022.


Selected works

*''Our Nell'' (1979) *''Wild Mammals of Western Canada'' (1981) (with Arthur Savage) *''Wonder of Canadian Birds'' (1985) *''Pelicans'' (1986) *''Eagles of North America'' (1987) *''Wolves'' (1988) *''Grizzly Bears'' (1990) *''Trash Attack!'' (1990) *''Get Growing!'' (1991) *''Peregrine Falcons'' (1992) *''Eat Up!'' (1992) *''Wild Cats'' (1993) *''Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights'' (1994) *''Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays'' (1995) *''Cowgirls'' (1996) *''The Nature of Wolves: An Intimate Portrait'' (1996) *''Mother Nature: Animal Parents and their Young'' (1997) *''Beauty Queens: A Playful History'' (1998) *''Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca'' (2000) *''Prairie: A Natural History'' (2004) *''Curious by Nature'' (2005) *''Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World'' (2005) *''Bees: Nature's little wonders'' (2008) *'' A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape'' (2012) *''Strangers in the House: a Prairie Story of Bigotry and Belonging'' (2019)


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