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How A Woman Becomes A Lake
''How a Woman Becomes a Lake'' is a 2020 novel by Marjorie Celona. Set in the small fishing town of Whale Bay, it deals with childhood, familial bonds, new beginnings, and costly mistakes. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel in 2021. CBC Books
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Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half- Scot half- American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of the Penguin Random House group. History and current publishing Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Nigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade), Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White and Truman Capote. In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Celona
Marjorie Celona (born January 7, 1981) is an American-Canadian writer. Their debut novel, '' Y'', published in 2012, won the Waterstones 11 literary prize and was a shortlisted nominee for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize."Victoria author makes Giller Prize long list". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', September 4, 2012. Life and career Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Celona studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Celona has published stories, book reviews, and essays in ''The O. Henry Prize Stories'', ''The Best American Nonrequired Reading'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Harvard Review'', and elsewhere. Celona was winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award in 2008 for their short story "Othello". Celona's short story, "Counterblast," won a 2018 O. Henry Award, and was selected as a juror favorite by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Books
CBC Arts (french: Radio-Canada Arts) is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', '' Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', ''Exhibitionists'', ''The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show (''The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries ('' Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Writers Of Canada Award For Best Novel
The Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel is an annual literary award, presented as part of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence program to honour books judged as the best crime novel Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ... published by a Canadian crime writer in the previous year. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{reflist Canadian fiction awards Mystery and detective fiction awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |