Annabel Lyon

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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
  • All-Season Edie (2009)
  • The Golden Mean (2009)
  • Encore Edie (2010)
  • The Sweet Girl (2012)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Lyon, Annabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brampton , Ontario , Canada