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Annette Lapointe is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Stolen was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006. Born in 1978 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she was educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Manitoba. Stolen also won two awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards, for best first novel and the Saskatoon Book Award, and was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Lapointe was also named Emerging Writer of 2007 by the Canadian Authors Association.