Judith Thompson

Judith Thompson is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and a professor of theatre studies at the University of Guelph. She has twice won the Governor General’s Award, for the play White Biting Dog (1984) and the collection of plays The Other Side of the Dark (1989), and has been recognized with many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, the Epilepsy Ontario Award, several Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the plays I Am Yours (1987) and Lion in the Streets (1991), the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, the B’nai B’rith Award, and many others. Her plays have been produced in many countries and translated into several languages. In 2008, she was the first Canadian to receive the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Born in Montréal, she now lives in Toronto. In Crow’s Field is her first novel.