Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of 11 novels, ranging from Abra, which won the Books in Canada (now Amazon) prize for first novels, to Critical Injuries, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Award, to Luck, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Her work, which reviewers have variously called ‘harrowing and hilarious’, and ‘gloriously subversive’, has been compared internationally to the fictions of Carol Shields, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble, and also include Dancing in the Dark, which was adapted into an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals, Duet for Three, Family News, Plain Jane, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch, Some Things About Flying, Getting Over Edgar, and Exit Lines.
A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, she has also been a journalist during much of her career. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada.
Translations include French, German, Italian, Russian, and various Scandinavian languages. In English, the novels have been published in the U.S. and U.K., as well as Canada.
Shortlisted, 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Longlisted, Man Booker Prize, 2002
Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award, 2001
Marian Engel Award.
Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Honorary doctorate, Western University, 2013.
Huron University College Medal of Distinction, 2005.
London YM-YWCA Women of Distinction Award, 1986.
Member: Writers' Union of Canada and P.E.N. Canada
 Exit Lines |
 Exit Lines |
 Luck |
 Critical Injuries |
 Abra |
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 Dancing in the Dark |
 Duet for Three |
 Family News |
 Plain Jane |
 Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch |
 Some Things About Flying |
 Getting Over Edgar |
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