Marjorie Celona
| Marjorie Celona | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1981 Victoria, British Columbia Canada |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | Canadian and American |
| Period | 2000s-present |
| Notable works | Y |
Marjorie Celona (born January 7, 1981) is an American-Canadian[1] writer. Her 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[2] and a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.[3]
Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia,[3] Celona studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[3] She is currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award in 2008 for her short story "Othello".
References
- ↑ "The author who couldn’t let go of the question Y". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 2012.
- ↑ "Kim Thuy, Marjorie Celona among finalists for Amazon.ca First Novel Award". National Post, February 27, 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Victoria author makes Giller Prize long list". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 4, 2012.