It is considered a great accomplishment to complete a novel, much less have it published, make the best-seller list and win an award. But for Dr. Max Foran, a professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, it is all in a day’s work.

His best selling novel The Madonna List was the recipient of the Trade Fiction Book Award at the 2006 Alberta Book Awards. Winners were selected by the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Book Publishers Association.

While Foran says he is “honoured and pleased” by the prize, his aspirations were somewhat smaller when he first penned the story.

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