Janette Oke

Janette Oke ( born February 18, 1935 as Janette Steeves ) is a Canadian writer of Christian literature.

Life

Janette Oke was born on a farm in Champion, in the Canadian province of Alberta.

She studied at Mountain View Bible College in Didsbury (Alberta) where he met her future husband Edward Oke know. The two married in 1957 and had since been working as pastors at different churches in Indiana, Calgary or Edmonton.

Janette Oke published her first book Love Comes Softly 1979 at Bethany House. In 1984 it appeared in Germany under the title Love grows like a tree in the publishing Gerth media. The book quickly became a best-seller, which now has 75 additional plants are followed.

Among the many awards ceremonies that Janette Oke has received include The Gold Medallion Award for Fiction, CBA Life Impact Award, The Christy Award of Excellence and President's Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Her daughter, Laurel Oke Logan wrote a biography of her mother, in German under the title Janette Oke: A Heart for the Prairie in 2002 appeared in Brunnen Verlag.

Works

The Settlers

The series was published from 1984 to 1990 in the publishing Gerth Medien, translated by Beate Peter. Read by Günter Schmitz are the first four volumes appeared in 1990 as an audio book. Fox Faith adapted the books as a series of films with actors such as Katherine Heigl, Corbin Bernsen and Erin Cottrell.

The heritage of the settlers

The sequel to The Settlers series appeared from 2001 to 2003 at Gerth media. The first two volumes were published as an audio book, read by Hanno Herzler.

Canada series

Seasons series

Acadia Saga

The Acadia saga plays in Canada of the 18th century and was written with co-author T. Davis Bunn.