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Alissa York
Alissa York (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and the 1999 winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Toronto with her writer/filmmaker/publisher husband Clive Holden.〔"Literary award means time to do what she loves: Winnipeg author Alissa York wins the Journey Prize". ''National Post'', October 21, 1999.〕 York is best known for her 2007 Random House Canada novel ''Effigy'', which was nominated in 2007 for one of Canada's most important prizes for literature and fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.〔(2007 Nominations for the Scotiabank Giller Prize )〕 ==Early life==
York was born to Australian immigrant parents in Athabasca, Alberta in 1970. Her parents were English teachers and encouraged York in her passion of reading and writing. York's family moved to Victoria in 1977 and after graduating high school, she moved to Montreal where she studied English Literature at McGill University. After meeting Clive Holden, the man who eventually became her husband, the couple moved throughout Canada living in Toronto, Whitehorse, Montreal, Victoria and Vancouver. Before publishing her first short story in 1995, York worked various jobs including acting in local theatre productions, waitressing, working at a bookstore and arranging flowers.〔()〕
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