found: Wikipedia, viewed 13 June 2024:Gloria Sawai (Canadian author; born Gloria Ruth Ostrem 20 December 1932, Minneapolis, Minnesota; moved in early childhood to Saskatchewan then in youth to Alberta; graduated from Camrose Lutheran College in 1948, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Augsburg College in 1953 and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Montana in 1977; novel A Song for Nettie Johnson won the 2002 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction; died 20 July 2011, Edmonton, Alberta)