Shani Mootoo
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Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland in 1958, raised in Trinidad, and moved to Canada at the age of 19.
Her first collection of short fiction, Out on Main Street, was published in 1993, and her debut novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was released in 1996. She is also a multimedia artist, whose paintings, videos and photos have been exhibited internationally.
Mootoo currently divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York City.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
- Out on Main Street (1993, short fiction)
- Cereus Blooms at Night (1996)
- The Predicament of or (2001)
- He Drown She in the Sea (2005) (longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award)
[edit] References
- ^ Joseph, May & Fink, Jennifer (1999), Performing Hybridity, University of Minnesota Press, p. 254, ISBN 0816630119
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