novel, The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish will be published by Dundurn Press in 2014. Aside from his novels and plays, Allan has written for international events, including the evenings for Stephen Sondheim, Robert Rauschenberg and Guy Laliberté at The Harbourfront Centre World Leaders' Festival, Toronto. He also maintains an active public speaking and theatre adjudication schedule. In private life, he enjoys reading, weightlifting, and travel; his interests have taken him to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean and throughout Europe and North America. For several years, he volunteered at a Manhattan soup kitchen, and has undergone Santerian purification rituals, witnessed an exorcism in Botswana, and slept between rail cars behind the former Iron Curtain. His work is published internationally by HarperCollins, Faber and Faber, Penguin Books, Samuel French, The Riverbank Press, Annick Press, Deutscher Taschenburg Verlag, Allen and Unwin, The Chicken House, Bayard Jeunesse, Asunaro Shobo, Hsiao Lu Publishing, Random House: Joong Ang, Zalozba Mis, Van Goor, Thuong Huyen Books, Hangilsa Publishing Company, Editora Planeta, Editora Pruno, Sinnos, Scholastic Canada, Coach House Press, and Playwrights Canada, among others, and has been widely anthologized. He and his spouse live in Toronto with their four cats. Personal life Stratton is gay and happily married. Prizes and honours 1981 Chalmers Award for Rexy!1981 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Rexy!1985 Chalmer's Award, Outstanding New Play for Papers2005 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award for Chanda's Secrets2005 Independent Publisher Book Award (U.S.A.), Best Juvenile and YA Fiction, for Chanda's SecretsRunners-up, booklists, etc. 1986 Finalist, Governor General's Award for Papers1986 Finalist, Dora Mavor Moore Award for Papers1992 Finalist, Toronto Book Awards for Bag Babies1996 Finalist, Dora Mavor Moore Award - Best New Play for Dracula2000 Stephen Leacock Award of Merit for The Phoenix Lottery 2002 American Library Association: "Best Books for Young Adults" for Leslie's Journal2002 McNally Robinson Booksellers Online: "Our Choice 2001" for Leslie's Journal2005 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, awarded by the American Library Association, for Chanda's Secrets2005 American Library Association, Best Books for Young Adults Chandra's Secrets2005 Booklist, Editor's Choice for Chanda's Secrets2005 Shortlisted, Ontario Library Association: Forest of Reading White Pine Award for Chanda's Secrets2009 Shortlisted, Ontario Library Association: Forest of Reading White Pine Award for Chanda's Wars2011 Shortlisted, Ontario Library Association: Forest of Reading White Pine Award for BorderlineWorks NovelsPhoenix Lottery (2000) Riverbank Press Leslie's Journal ]]Chanda's Secrets (2004) Annick PressChanda's