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          Alison Pick

          Canadian writer (born 1975)

          Alison Pick (born 1975) is a Canadian writer.

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          She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Far to Go, and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35.

          Life and career

          Alison Pick is the author of three novels (The Sweet Edge, Far to Go, and Strangers With the Same Dream), two poetry collections and one memoir (Between Gods).

          She was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Kitchener. In 1999, she graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A. in psychology.

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          5. Pick received her MA in philosophy from Memorial University in Newfoundland. During her teenage years, Pick discovered that her father's Czech family was originally Jewish although he had been raised a Christian.[6] Pick herself later converted to Judaism.[7]

          Pick's novel Far to Go won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

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