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Warren Cariou’s hometown of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan is the subject of his latest book, Lake of the Prairies.  He has published one previous book, entitled, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs,1999.  He is now at work on a novel about the oil industry, entitled Exhaust scheduled to be published in 2006.

Cariou has also published short stories in many journals and anthologies and has received several awards and grants for his writing. Lake of the Prairies was chosen as one of The Globe and Mail’s Best 100 Books of 2002 and was featured as one of Sandra Martin’s top 10 nonfiction books of the year. It won the 2002 Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography and was nominated for the 2004 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction.

Cariou holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto. He also writes criticism on First Nations literature and has held teaching and research positions relating to that subject at the University of British Columbia and Saskatchewan.  He is now Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Manitoba, where his wife Alison Calder also teaches.