Marie Jakober

Marie Jakober was a Canadian novelist.
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Jakober wrote historical fiction and fantasy. Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua won the Writer's Guild of Alberta Novel Award in 1985. She received the 2002 Michael [Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction] for her novel Only Call Us Faithful. Her second Civil War novel, Sons of Liberty, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the Alberta Book Awards in 2006.