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Canadian writer Adele Wiseman was born on May 21, 1928, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents had emigrated from the Ukraine in 1923 and spent two years in Montreal before settling in Winnipeg's North End, a vibrant enclave of Jewish, German, Ukrainian, and Slavic immigrants. Wiseman earned a bachelor of arts degree in English and psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1949. Following graduation, she lived in London, Rome, and New York, where she wrote and worked at a number of jobs. From 1964 to 1969 Wiseman lived in Montreal, where she taught English at Sir George Williams (now Concordia) University and Macdonald College of McGill University. She was later writer in residence at several Canadian universities and head of the May Studios (Writing Program) at Banff Centre for the Arts.
Wiseman wrote two novels, The Sacrifice, which received the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 1956, and
Wiseman also wrote two plays (
See also CITIES AND TOWNS: Winnipeg, Manitoba.