Lynn Coady

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Lynn Coady (born January 24, 1970 in Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian English-language writer .

Life

Lynn Coady grew up in an adoptive family in her hometown of Port Hawkesbury. After graduating from Carleton University in Ottawa, she moved to New Brunswick , where she tried to become a playwright alongside several jobs. She then moved to Vancouver and studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia .

Coady made her debut as a writer in 1998 with her novel Strange Heaven . In 1998 she received a shortlist nomination for the prestigious Governor General's Award for Fiction . She was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize with both her short story debut Play the Monster Blind and her second short story Hellgoing , published in 2013 . She was also awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize for the latter .

Works (selection)

Short stories
  • Play the Monster Blind (2000)
    • from it: A great man's passing, in The Oxford Book of stories by Canadian women in English. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan, Oxford University Press Canada, Don Mills (Ontario) 1999, pp. 560–580 (available in online bookshops)
  • Hellgoing (2013)
Novels
  • Strange Heaven (1998)
  • Saints of Big Harbor (2002)
  • Mean boy (2006)
  • The Antagonist (2011)
Non-fiction

literature

  • Maïté Snauwaert: Lynn Coady: aka the wit , in Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Ed. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Atlanta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp. 19 - 36 (with excerpt from The Antagonist pp. 27 - 36) Available in Google books

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personal data
SURNAME Coady, Lynn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Hawkesbury , Nova Scotia , Canada