Anakana Schofield
| Anakana Schofield | |
|---|---|
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| Born | England |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Irish/Canadian |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable works | Malarky"Martin John" |
Anakana Schofield is an Irish-Canadian writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award[1] and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction[2] in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky. Born in England to an Irish mother, she lived in London and in Dublin, Ireland until moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1999.[3]
The novel was also a shortlisted nominee for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.[4] and a Barnes & Noble 2012 Discover Great New Writers pick. [5]
Martin John, her Giller Prize shortlisted second novel, was published in North America in Fall 2015 to wide critical acclaim including Editors' Choice in the New York Times.[6] The New York Times described the novel as "Deploying some serious literary gumption, Schofield’s frequently hilarious, and distinctly modernist, linguistic games are always gainfully employed in the uneasy, indelicate task of placing her reader nose to nose with the humanity of a sex offender — and a sex offender’s mother." [7] In the UK and Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa it was published in Feb 2016. Eileen Battersby hailed the novel in The Irish Times comparing it to Nabokov's Lolita and describing it as "a comic tour de force sustained by theatrical energy as well as linguistic and tonal cohesion. It should be adapted for stage; most comedians would donate their organs in exchange for a fraction of the gags, never mind Schofield’s assured timing." [8][9] The novel was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[10]
Schofield has also been a literary critic, essayist and broadcaster, contributing to the London Review of Books Blog, The Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, The Guardian,[11] The Irish Times and the Vancouver Sun.[1]
Works
- Malarky (2012, ISBN 978-1926845388)
- Rereading the Riot Act And On (2013, ISBN 978-1-927394-10-6)
- Martin John (2015, ISBN 9781771960342)
References
- 1 2 "Anakana Schofield’s Malarky wins First Novel Award". Toronto Star, April 24, 2013.
- ↑ "The Winners of the 2013 Debut-litzer Prizes - Late Night Library". Late Night Library. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ↑ "First time lucky". Quill & Quire, August 2012.
- ↑ "Schofield, Gaston highlight B.C. Book Prize nominees". National Post, March 14, 2013.
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- ↑ . "Globe and Mail, July 3, 2015.
- ↑ "Scotiabank Giller Prize | The Scotiabank Giller Prize presents its 2015 shortlist". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ↑ Schofield, Anakana (2013-07-25). "Anakana Schofield: publicising a novel - the problems". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-01-28.