Bitter Medicine is but one of many works of Clem Martini. As a playwright, Clem has written The Colour of Coal (1988), Illegal Entry (1995), and Selling Mr. Rushdie (1997). Bitter Medicine was not the only work written by Clem that was influenced by schizophrenia. Nobody of Consequence (1990) was written by Clem and revolves around identity and losing one’s self. Influenced by an interview with a trainer at the Calgary Zoo, Clem went on to write The Life History of the African Elephant (1989) as well as Secret Life of the Octopus (2005). Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles is a trilogy of young adult novels that Clem wrote and the narration is done by Crows. Some of the works he worked on alongside his wife, Cheryl Foggo are: Turnaround (1999) and The Devil We Know (2012).
A Three Martini Lunch was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award. It is an anthology of three plays written by Clem, and consists of: Conversations with My Neighbour’s Pit Bull, House of Glass, and Up on the Roof. Clem Martini has won three Alberta Writer’s Guild Prizes as well as the National Playwriting Competition. Clem Martini is the head of the drama department in the University of Calgary as of 2008.
SOURCE: THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
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