Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon (* 1971 in Brampton , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian writer .
Life
Annabel Lyon grew up in Coyuitlam in the Canadian province of British Columbia . She received her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Simon Fraser University and her master's degree in creative writing from the University of British Columbia , where she also studied law for a year.
Lyon made her debut as a writer in 2000 with her collection of short stories, Oxygen . Her second publication The Best Thing for You , three contiguous short novellas, was nominated for the 2005 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize . With her novel The Golden Mean , which tells a fictional story between Alexander the Great and his teacher Aristotle , she managed the feat in 2010 as the only author for the three great Canadian literary prizes, the Scotiabank Giller Prize , and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize , the latter being the winner.
Her second book, All-Season Edie , has so far been published in German . The book for young people was published in 2010 in a translation by Maria Meinel by Beltz & Gelberg .
Works (selection)
- Short stories
- Oxygen (2000)
- The Best Thing for You (2004)
- Saturday Night Function (2004)
- Imagining ancient women. 2012. Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series, University of Alberta Press
- Novels
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All-Season Edie (2009)
- My darn-twisted year . Beltz & Gelberg 2010 ISBN 978-3-407-74194-3
- The Golden Mean (2009)
- Encore Edie (2010)
- The Sweet Girl (2012)
Web links
- Literature by and about Annabel Lyon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's blog
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SURNAME | Lyon, Annabel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brampton , Ontario , Canada |