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Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer whose debut young adult novel '' When Everything Feels Like the Movies'' won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards."Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction" '''', November 18, 2014. The novel, inspired in part by the 2008 murder of gay teenager Lawrence Fobes King, was published by |
When Everything Feels Like The Movies
''When Everything Feels Like the Movies'' is the debut young adult novel by Raziel Reid. The novel is narrated by the protagonist, Jude Rothesay, from a first-person perspective, and details his experiences and difficulties over a few days as a gay teenager in school. Reid was inspired by the events leading up to the 2008 murder of Larry King in Oxnard, California, as he perceived parallels between his life and King's life. Plot Jude Rothesay struggles with relationships at school (where he has unrequited crushes on boys, which he discusses his best friend, Angela) and at home (where he steals tips and clothes from his exotic dancer mother and tries to avoid his uninterested stepfather, Ray). The story, as narrated by Jude, recasts his reality as the set of a movie starring Jude, with other students playing bit parts ("The Extras"), as central to his life and fantasies ("The Movie Stars"), or as heckling bullies ("The Paparazzi"). Major themes The novel is notable for its frank t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Lambda Literary Awards
The 27th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 1, 2015, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2014."The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists" , March 4, 2015. The list of nominees was released on March 4. The ceremony was held at Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, N ...
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Governor General's Award–winning Children's Writers
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Canadian LGBTQ Journalists
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21st-century Canadian Novelists
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Novelists From Vancouver
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary criticism commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment within which a novelist works a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
