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Bitter Medicine

A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

by (author) Clem Martini & Olivier Martini

Publisher
Freehand Books
Initial publish date
Mar 2010
Subjects
Medical, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Memoir
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781460400159
    Publish Date
    Mar 2010
    List Price
    $10.99

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About the authors

Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.

Clem Martini's profile page

Olivier Martin’s sketches, paintings, and prints have been displayed at the Marion McGrath Gallery and Studio Three Gallery, published in Alberta Views magazine, and were included as part of the Canadian Mental Health’s Copernicus Project. His first book, Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, a collaboration with his brother Clem, won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.

Olivier Martini's profile page

Awards

  • Short-listed, Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction
  • Winner, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize
  • Winner, Alberta Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year