Gertrude Story
Canadian short story writer, poet and radio broadcaster (1929-2014)
Gertrude Elizabeth Story (née Wudrick; September 19, 1929 – January 18, 2014) was a Canadian short story writer, poet and radio broadcaster. She began writing humorous stories and commentaries based on the rural German-Canadian Lutheran farming community she was raised in, in 1950. Story's works were broadcast on CBC Radio and did home-based literary reports for the network. authored multiple novels and published a poetry collection during the early 1980s to the early 1990s. She served as writer-in-residence of across various Canadian institutions and was an active member of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. The works of Story have been studied in Australian and German university classes.
Early life and education
On September 19, 1929, Story was born in the Bergheim district, close to Sutherland, Saskatchewan, in Canada. She was the daughter of Rheinhold and Mathilda (Jabusch) Wudrick, and was raised in a German-Canadian Lutheran farming community, with three siblings. She left the Lutheran farming community at a young age and did not return. In 1976, Story matriculated to the University of Saskatchewan, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in 1981.
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