Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario. Mirolla was awarded the

Bressani Award The Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize is a biennial award created by the Italian Cultural Centre Society of Vancouver in 1986. It was created to promote and honour Canadian writers of Italian descent. There are $1000 prizes for poetry ( ...

for his novel ''Berlin'' in 2010 (Leapfrog Press). He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times. In both 2009 and 2014, Mirolla served as a finalist judge for the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest, selecting Vickie Weaver's ''Billie Girl'' in 2009 and Gregory Hill's ''The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles'' in 2014. His short story collection ''Paradise Island and Other Galaxies'' was shortlisted for the

ReLit Award The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". '' The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundl ...

for short fiction in 2021.

Early life and education

In 1952, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brother from the town of Jelsi in Italy to

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, Canada at the age of four. He moved to Ontario in 1993 and lived in Toronto before moving to Oakville in 2012. Mirolla graduated from

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and completed a masters in creative writing at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

Works

Novels

* ''Berlin'' (2008) * ''The Facility'' (2010) * ''The Ballad of Martin B.'' a novella (2011) * ''The Giulio Metaphysics III'' (2013) * ''Torp: the landlord, the husband, the wife and the lover'' (2016)

Short fiction

* ''The Formal Logic of Emotion'' (1992) * ''Hothouse Loves & Other Tales'' (2007) * ''Lessons in Relationship Dyads'' (2015) * ''The Photographer in Search of Death'' (2017) * ''Paradise Island and Other Galaxies'' (2020)

Poetry

* ''Poems'' (1973) * ''Interstellar Distances'' (2009) * ''Light and Time'' (2010) * ''The House on 14th Avenue'' (2013)

Plays

* ''Gargoyles'' * ''Snails'' * ''A Revised Experiment''

References

External links

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