Miriam Mandel

Miriam Mandel (June 24, 1930 – February 13, 1982) was a Canadian poet who won Canada's Governor General's Award.

Early life Miriam Mandel was born in Rockglen, Saskatchewan. The couple had two children. In 1967 the couple divorced and Eli Mandel remarried. She won the Governor General's Award in 1973 for her first collection, Lions At Her Face. She later published two more collections of poetry.

Miriam Mandel was a long-time sufferer from depression.

Miriam Mandel died in Edmonton by suicide.

Novelist Sheila Watson edited Miriam Mandel's Collected Poems in 1984. The Miriam Mandel fonds is at the University of Calgary.

Non-fiction Miriam Mandel et al. Herpes Handbook: A Guide For the Diagnosis and Management of Herpes Genitals. Toronto: R.E.A.C.H., 1981. The Miriam Mandel Papers. Sandra Mortensen, compiler; Apollonia Steele and Jean F. Tener, ed. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1990. ISSN 0831-4497

Except where noted, bibliographic information courtesy University of Saskatchewan.