Fred Stenson

Fred Stenson is the author of The Trade, which was nominated for the 2000 Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writers’ Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. He has also written scripts for over 140 produced films and videos, and writes a regular humour column in Alberta Views Magazine. Stenson presents his eighth book of fiction and fifteenth book overall, The Great Karoo, which follows a cowboy from Alberta’s Chief Mountains country who joins the Canadian Mounted Rifles and sets out to defend the British Empire in South Africa.