Anita Daher

Anita Daher is an author, screenwriter, producer, and actor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She has worked in book publishing since 1995 and has published in print, audio and e-book format in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She is also an actor on stage and screen. In 2020, she produced and hosted an author interview series called Made in Manitoba: Stories from Home.

Daher was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, where she spent her childhood and the first two decades of her adult years moving every few years from one part of the country to the next. This wandering may have influenced her writing style. Her work is known for having a strong sense of "place."

Daher sat as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada from 2019-2021, the first two-year term Chair in the Union's history.

Awards

 * Winner, John Hirsch Award for Most Promising New Writer, 2007
 * Finalist, Spider's Song, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008
 * Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Arthur Ellis Award, 2008
 * Finalist, Racing for Diamonds, Hackmatack Award, 2009
 * Long List, Mime, CBC Literary Prize, 2017
 * Finalist, Forgetting How to Breathe, IODE Violet Downey Book Award, 2019
 * Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Forest of Reading White Pine Award, 2021
 * Finalist, You Don't Have to Die in the End, Manitoba Book Award, Best YA Novel, 2021
 * Finalist, Peanut Butter and Chaos, Manitoba Young Readers Choice Sundog Award, 2024
 * Finalist, Peanut Butter and Chaos, Red Cedar Award, 2024