Marianne Brandis

Marianne Brandis (born 1938) is a Dutch-born Canadian writer.

Brandis was born in Amersfoort on October 5, 1938, to Willem Jean and Mattha Cornelia Brender à Brandis. She moved with her family to Canada in 1947, living in British Columbia and Nova Scotia before settling in Ontario. She attended the University of British Columbia from 1956 to 1958, then St. Francis Xavier University from 1958 to 1959 before earning a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University in 1960, followed by a Master of Arts from the same university in 1964.

As of 2016, she lived in Stratford, Ontario. 1986 IODE Violet Downey Book Award Winner 1991 Geoffrey Bilson Award Winner 1996 Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada Geoffrey Bilson Award Winner This Spring's Sowing (1970) The Tinderbox (1982) The Quarter-Pie Window (1985) The Sign of the Scales (1990) Fire Ship (1992) Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada (1996) Frontiers and Sanctuaries: A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada, biography (2006) The Grand River / Dundalk to Lake Erie (2015)