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After
	First edition cover of Canadian release
Author	Francis Chalifour
Subject	Suicide
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Tundra Books
Publication date	October 11, 2005
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	256 pp.
ISBN	9780887767050

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After is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writer Francis Chalifour, first published in October 2005 by Tundra Books. In the book, the author narrates his pain and confusion as he grieved his father's death by suicide. Judith Miller, an award judge for the Edna Staebler Award called After, "deeply moving" saying, "We enjoyed the lyricism of his language and his strong sense of character."^[1]

Awards and honours

After received the 2006 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".^[1] The book was also nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2005.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ Tundra Books, After Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, About the Book, Awards, Retrieved 11/27/2012

External links

Tundra Books, Francis Chalifour, Artist Spotlight, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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[wlu06-1] Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[2] Tundra Books, After Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, About the Book, Awards, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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-'''''After''''' is a [[non-fiction]] book, written by [[Canadian writer]] [[Francis Chalifour]], first published in October [[2005 in literature|2005]] by [[Tundra Books]]. In the book, the author narrates his pain and confusion as he grieved his father's death by suicide. [[Judith Miller]], an award judge for the [[Edna Staebler Award]] called ''After'', "deeply moving" saying, "We enjoyed the lyricism of his language and his strong sense of character."<ref name="wlu06">Faculty of Arts, 2006, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11307 Edna Staebler Award]</span>, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref><ref>Kletter, Judy Raphael, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.suicidology.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=249&name=DLFE-572.pdf ''After'']{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</span>, suicidology.org, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>
+'''''After''''' is a [[non-fiction]] book written by [[Canadian writer]] [[Francis Chalifour]], first published in October [[2005 in literature|2005]] by [[Tundra Books]]. In the book, the author narrates his pain and confusion as he grieved his father's death by suicide. [[Judith Miller]], an award judge for the [[Edna Staebler Award]] called ''After'', "deeply moving" saying, "We enjoyed the lyricism of his language and his strong sense of character."<ref name="wlu06">Faculty of Arts, 2006, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11307 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164134/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11307 |date=2014-06-06 }}</span>, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>
 ==Awards and honours==
-''After'' received the 2006 "[[Edna Staebler Award]] for [[Creative Non-Fiction]]".<ref name="wlu06"/> The book was also nominated for a [[Governor General's Literary Award]] in 2005.<ref>Tundra Books, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780887767050 ''After'']</span>, About the Book, Awards, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>
+''After'' received the 2006 "[[Edna Staebler Award]] for [[Creative Non-Fiction]]".<ref name="wlu06"/> The book was also nominated for a [[Governor General's Literary Award]] in 2005.<ref>Tundra Books, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780887767050 ''After''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208191644/http://www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780887767050 |date=2015-12-08 }}</span>, About the Book, Awards, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>
 ==See also==
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+*Tundra Books, <span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20151122123507/http://www.tundrabooks.com/authors/author.pperl?authorid=59986 Francis Chalifour]</span>, Artist Spotlight, Retrieved 11/27/2012
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v t e Winners of the Edna Staebler Award
1990s	Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991) Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992) Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993) Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994) Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995) George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996) Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997) Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998) Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
2000s	Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000) Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001) Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002) Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003) Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004) Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005) Francis Chalifour, After (2006) Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007) Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008) Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
2010s	John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010) Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011) Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012) Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013) Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014) Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015) Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016) Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017) Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018) Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
2020s	Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020) Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021) Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022) Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)