Carol Shields' Works

Around the World

- In Canada, the US and the UK, her novels have sold in the multi -millions

- In Canada - her novels have sold over 1,000,000

- The Stone Diaries - in the United States 1,000,000 copies

- Larry's Party - in the United Kingdom 250,000 copies and in the United States it has sold over 70,000 copies

Books by Carol Shields are sold in over 28 countries

- Australia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Czech Republic

- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary

- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Korea
- the Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal

- Russia
- Spain (and Spanish
speaking territories)
- Sweden
- Turkey
- the U.K
- the U.S.


- Larry's Party is available in 28 countries.

- Stone Diaries is available in 15 countries.

- Republic of Love is available in 12 countries.

Books by Carol Shields have been published in the following 27 languages:

- English
- Danish
- Swedish
- Finnish
- Norwegian
- Russian
- Estonian		 - Bulgarian
- Polish
- Czech
- Croatian
- French
- Italian
- Greek		 - Hungarian
- Spanish
- Catalan
- German
- Portuguese
- Dutch
- Icelandic		 - Turkish
- Hebrew
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Bengali


Her Works

Others (poetry), 1972, (Borealis)

Intersect, (poetry), 1974, (Borealis)

Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision, 1976, (Borealis)

Small Ceremonies, 1976, (McGraw-Hill Ryerson) published in: Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Germany

The Box Garden , 1977 (McGraw-Hill Ryerson) published in: Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Bulgaria

Happenstance, 1980 (McGraw-Hill Ryerson) published in: Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Holland, China, Israel, Germany, Finland

A Fairly Conventional Woman, 1982 (MacMillan)

Various Miracles, 1985 (Stoddart) published in: Canada, U.S.A., U.K. (short stories)

Swann, 1987 (Stoddart) published in: Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Norway, Brazil, Spain, Holland, France, Turkey, Poland, Sweden

The Orange Fish, 1989 (Random House) published in: Canada, U.S.A. (short stories)

Departures and Arrivals, (Blizzard), 1990 (play)

A Celibate Season, (with Blanche Howard) 1991 (Coteau) published in: Canada

Republic of Love, 1992 (Random House) published in 12 countries: Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Finland, Denmark, Korea, Sweden, Germany, France, Holland, Israel, Poland

Coming to Canada, 1992 (Carleton University Press) (poetry)

Stone Diaries, 1993 (Random House) published in 27 countries:

- Canada
- U.S.A.
- U.K.
- China
- Taiwan
- Denmark
- India		 - Finland
- Estonia
- Croatia
- Italy
- Hungary
- Spain
- Greece		 - Germany
- Brazil
- Holland
- Japan
- Iceland
- France
- Poland		 - Israel
- Czech Republic
- Turkey
- Korea
- Sweden
- Norway

Larry's Party, 1997 (Random House) published in 15 countries:

- Canada
- U.S.A.
- Greece
- China		 - Germany
- Norway
- Finland
- Spain		 - France
- Sweden
- Israel
- Holland 		- Brazil
- Poland
- Denmark

Anniversary (with Dave Williamson), 1998 (Blizzard) (drama)

Dressing Up For The Carnival, 2000 (Random House) published in Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Holland

Jane Austen, 2001 (Penguin/Viking) (biography)

Dropped Threads: What We Weren't Told (edited with Marjorie Anderson), 2001 (Random House/Vintage) (essays)

Dropped Threads: More of What We Weren't Told (edited with Marjorie Anderson), 2003 (Random House/Vintage) (essays)

Thirteen Hands and Other Plays, 2001 (Vintage) (plays)

Unless, 2002 published in 17 countries:

- Canada
- U.S.A.
- U.K.
- Brazil
- France		 - Finland
- Germany
- Israel
- Spain		 - Holland
- Portugal
- Czech Republic
- Greece		 - Hungary
- Italy
- Norway
- Sweden

note: Carol's books would be read in many more countries than the ones listed. For each book, Carol signed separate contracts with publishers in the United Kingdom, the USA and Canada for English language editions. The three publishers, in effect, divided up the English speaking world among themselves. This meant that Carol's books were either printed in or sent to many English speaking countries for sale, such as New Zealand, Australia, India, Ireland, Ghana, and so on. And sent to many countries where there were a good number of English language readers such as Holland and Pakistan.

Publications About Carol

Carol Shields - The Arts of a Writing Life, edited by Neil K. Besner, Prairie Fire Press, Inc., 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Prairie Fire - A Canadian Magazine of New Writing - Carol Shields Special Edition, Prairie Fire Press, Inc., 2003, Winnipeg, Manitoba

A Room of One's Own, Growing Room Collective,Vol 13, Numbers 1 _ 2, edited by Eleanor Wachtel

More Writers _ Company, Knopf Canada, 1996, includes a long interview with Carol

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