Us Conductors

Us Conductors
First edition cover
Author	Sean Michaels
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre	fiction
Publisher	Random House of Canada Tin House (US)
Publication date	April 8, 2014
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	978-1935639817
OCLC	859192091

Us Conductors is a novel by Canadian writer Sean Michaels. Published in 2014 by Random House in Canada and Tin House in the United States, the novel was the winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize^[1] and the 2014 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.^[2] It was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 amazon.ca First Novel Award, Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction and CMLP Firecracker Award for Fiction.^[3]^[4]^[5]

The novel is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, and Clara Rockmore, the musician regarded as the instrument's first virtuoso player.

References

↑ "Sean Michaels wins 2014 Giller Prize for Us Conductors". National Post, November 10, 2014.
↑ "Sean Michaels wins Quebec Writer's Federation fiction award". CBC News, November 18, 2014.
↑ "Amazon.ca First Novel Award shortlist announced". Quill & Quire, April 1, 2015.
↑ "Canadian Authors Association Award Shortlist announced". Canadian Authors Association, May, 2015.
↑ "The Firecracker Short List". CMLP, April 3, 2015.

Recipients of the Giller Prize

1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)

2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)

2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015)

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