ArticlesMargaret Sweatman
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FictionLiterary thriller unwinds in deep mines, where true motivations remain hidden
Night Birds, Winnipeg author Margaret Sweatman’s seventh novel, is a literary thriller. It begins with a mining disaster in Romania: an open-pit gold mine and its cyanide-laced tailing basin are pummelled with heavy rains, which sends deadly slurry down the mountain. -
FictionA weapon, an obsession, and a father-daughter bond form centre of Sweatman’s latest
Margaret Sweatman is a force of nature. The Winnipeg-based writer is an essayist, poet, playwright, musician, and songwriter who received a Genie award for a song she co-wrote with Glenn Buhr. Her fiction has also won many awards, including the Rogers Writers’ Trust, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Sunburst awards. The Gunsmith’s Daughter is her sixth novel.
