Jonathan Dyck is a Canadian graphic novelist from

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Career

Dyck began publishing comics in the 2010s, including publication in

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and others. His debut graphic novel, ''Shelterbelts'', set in the fictional Mennonite town of Hespeler, was published by Conundrum Press in 2022. ''Shelterbelts'' won the 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards. It was also co-winner of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book and also won the Doug Wright Award for Emerging Talent. In 2024, Dyck illustrated a short nonfiction graphic novel called ''The Secret Treaty'', told by Dave Scott, about a handshake treaty between the

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and early Mennonite settlers of the

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Personal life

Dyck grew up in a Mennonite family in

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and currently lives in Winnipeg. He is married to poet Sarah Ens.

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* Living people Manitoba Book Awards winners Novelists from Manitoba Writers from Winnipeg Mennonite writers Mennonite artists Canadian comics artists Canadian graphic novelists Canadian Mennonites Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-writer-stub