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About the Artist Michael Kluckner is a writer and an artist. His early books on the history of Canadian cities, heritage, planning issues and art, include Vancouver The Way It Was, Vanishing Vancouver, Paving Paradise, and British Columbiain Watercolour. These books have won numerous awards, including the Duthie Prize, the Vancouver Book Prize, the Toronto Book Prize (short list), the Hallmark Society (Victoria) Award of Merit, and the Heritage Canada Medal of Achievement. Books in the 1990s included Michael Kluckner’s Vancouver, a collection of paintings, and The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm, which reflected Kluckner’s move from the city to the country. His 1998 book Canada: A Journey of Discovery explores the places and countryside that made up his childhood image of Canada. Kluckner followed up The Pullet with a farm-noir sequel, a tale of mind over mutton, entitled Wise Acres, published in the fall of 2000. Vanishing British Columbia, which developed on this website, was published by UBC Press in 2005. Vancouver Remembered was published in 2006 and was the winner of the 2007 City of Vancouver Book Award. Kluckner and his wife Christine Allen, also an author,now reside in Katoomba, NSW, Australia. Kluckner’s artistic reasons for making the move include a desire to start over with a new landscape. We are fortunate to have several of Michael Kluckner’s now rare and out-of-print books available for purchase in the gallery.