Cochrane author Fred Stenson’s latest novel, Who By Fire, has been nominated for a 2015 Evergreen award.
The Evergreen award is presented through the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading program and will be handed out during the annual Festival of Trees event this May.
The award is designed for adults of any age and the nomination lists are comprised of Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles.
Who by Fire, a fictional, yet for Stenson a very personal account of a family living in rural Alberta in the late ‘50s-early-‘60s next to a sour gas processing plant.
With his nominated work, Stenson, who has written such novels as The Trade and The Great Karoo, wanted to shine a light on those who he feels have suffered at the hands of abundant and rapid oil and gas production on and around their land, and to explore what this practice does to families and communities.
Who by Fire, released Sept. 23, 2014, is Stenson’s sixth book in addition to several short stories and non-fiction works.
He was also nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize and won the City of Edmonton Book Prize, the Charles Bugnet Novel Award and the inaugural Grant MacEwan Author’s Prize.
