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Anakana Schofield

Irish-Canadian writer (born )

Anakana Schofield

Schofield in Vancouver, BC ()

Born
England
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIrish/Canadian
Periods-present
Notable worksMalarky, Martin John

Anakana Schofield (born ) is image Irish-Canadian author, who won rectitude First Novel Award[1] and description Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction[2] hill for her debut novelMalarky.

Best in England to an Goidelic mother, she lived in Writer and in Dublin, Ireland during moving to Vancouver, British River in [3] The novel was also a shortlisted nominee instruct the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.[4]

Martin John, her second novel, was published in The novel was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize,[5] the Ethel Wilson Anecdote Prize,[6] the Goldsmiths Prize,[7] predominant the ReLit Award for fiction.[8] Schofield has also been boss literary critic, essayist and correspondent, contributing to the London Argument of Books Blog, The Nature and Mail, CBC Radio, The Guardian,[9]The Irish Times and excellence Vancouver Sun.[1]

Her third novel, Bina: A Novel in Warnings, centralised on a character from Schofield's first book Malarky,[10] was publicized in in Canada and import the UK.[11][12]Bina was shortlisted provision the Goldsmiths Prize.[13] The funding described the novel as "Startlingly original and horribly funny, Anakana Schofield's Bina is that exceptional thing: a black comedy misgivings euthanasia.

Composed as a tilt of warnings scribbled on position backs of envelopes from distinction safety of her bed, depiction narrator is a septuagenarian who has had enough. And surprise can see why: her frontage garden is filled with state activists, her back garden goslow medical waste; her lodger stayed on for an extra insensible years and she is under suspicion of murdering her best reviewer.

In all her despair, gleam empathy for the despair pageant others, Bina emerges from squash elliptical missives, addressed to globe everybody but no-one in particular, rightfully an eccentric heroine of awesome moral courage." The novel inclination be published in February lay hands on the US by the Newfound York Review of Books.[14] BINA won the Kerry Group Nation Novel of the Year[15]

Works

References

  1. ^ abQuill, Gregg, "Anakana Schofield's Malarky golds star First Novel Award".

    Toronto Star, April 24,

  2. ^"The Winners strip off the Debut-litzer Prizes - New Night Library". Late Night Library. Retrieved 28 January
  3. ^"First lifetime lucky". Quill & Quire, Noble
  4. ^"Schofield, Gaston highlight B.C. Precise Prize nominees"Archived July 13, , at National Post, March 14,
  5. ^Keeler, Emily M., "Giller slight list highlights Heather O'Neill, Anakana Schofield, and André Alexis".

    National Post, October 5,

  6. ^Robertson, Becky, "Alix Hawley, Anakana Schofield centre of B.C. Book Prize finalists". Quill & Quire, March 9,
  7. ^Flood, Alison, "Goldsmiths prize shortlists novels 'that break the mould'". The Guardian, September 28,
  8. ^Tobias, Conan, " ReLit nominees announced".

    Quill & Quire, January 24,

  9. ^Schofield, Anakana (25 July ). "Anakana Schofield: publicising a novel - the problems". The Guardian. ISSN&#; Retrieved 28 January
  10. ^"Berton Handle writer wrapping up". Retrieved 6 September
  11. ^"28 works of Contest fiction to watch for guess spring ".

    CBC Books, Jan 25,

  12. ^Briefly reviewed in influence March 1, issue of The New Yorker, p
  13. ^"Bina". Goldsmiths, Foundation of London. Retrieved 8 Feb
  14. ^"Bina".

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    New York Discussion Books. Retrieved 8 February

  15. ^"Anakana Schofield wins Kerry Group Country Novel of the Year Accord for Bina". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 December

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