Home Town of Writer Deborah Ellis

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Deborah Ellis is an award-winning feminist, peace activist and philanthropist. She was born in 1960 in Cochrane.

Deborah Ellis began writing at 11 and released her first book after she entered a contest for unpublished novelists in 2000. Deborah penned the international bestseller The Breadwinner.

In 2006, Deborah was named to the Order of Ontario. In 2016, Ellis was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

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