Marjorie Gabrielle Celona
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Marjorie Gabrielle Celona
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  • About the Author :
  • How a Woman Becomes a Lake :
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  • Upcoming Events & Recent News

    Wildsam: Pacific Northwest Book Launch & Literary Reading, Feb 7, 2021:
    www.crowdcast.io/e/wildsam-pacific/regi…

    How a Woman Becomes a Lake is on the Loan Stars' Best of the Brightest 2020 List (Thank you, Canadian librarians!):
    www.loanstars.ca/

    International Festival of Authors, Toronto, ON (virtual), October 31st, alongside Samantha Bailey:
    festivalofauthors.ca/event/maternal-mys…

    Vancouver artist Nat Happe has won the Writers Trust Draw the Word Challenge for her artwork inspired by HWBL:
    www.writerstrust.com/draw-the-word-chal…

    Interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC's The Last Chapter:
    www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-ep…

    Interview with Sheryl Mackay on CBC's North by Northwest:
    www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north…

    Vancouver Writers Festival: Marjorie Celona in Conversation with Leslie Hurtig, Saturday, April 25, 2020, 1 PM PST, Facebook Live:
    writersfest.bc.ca/event/marjorie-celona…

    Bonnie Stern Book Club, March 23, 2020, Toronto, ON:
    foodnews.bonniestern.com/

    Interview with short-story writer Jason Brown about his latest collection in Fiction Writers Review:
    fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-i…

  • Archived News, Media, etc.

    "Counterblast" has won an O.Henry award for 2018 and was picked as a juror favorite by Ottessa Moshfegh:
    www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564983…

    Cuirt International Festival of Literature 2015 panel with Vincent Lam and Dionne Brand:
    www.faber.co.uk/blog/event/marjorie-cel…

    Y has won the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Héroïne (France) for Best Foreign Novel: www.livreshebdo.fr/article/madame-figar…

    Irish actor Damien Molony will read "Othello" at Foyles on April 3 in London: www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.a…

    "Othello" has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/bo…

    The Dutch edition of Y, Waarom, has been nominated for the Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuur Prijs 2014:
    www.djp.nl/index.html

    Y has won Drake University's Emerging Writer Award:
    artsci.drake.edu/english/WritersandCrit…

    Y is shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award:
    www.centerforfiction.org/awards/the-fla…

    Y has been chosen as one of the Waterstones 11:
    www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/page…

    Y is the #1 Indie Next Pick for January 2013:
    www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list

    Y is among CBC Books' Best Canadian Books of 2012:
    www.cbc.ca/books/2012/12/best-canadian-…

    Y makes the Vancouver Sun Books Editor's 2012 Top Reads:
    www.canada.com/entertainment/books/edit…

    Globe & Mail's Top 23 Canadian Fiction Books of the Year:
    www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-…

    Amazon.ca's Best Books of 2012:
    Amazon.ca Top 100 List

    Podcast with Joseph Planta of The Commentary:
    thecommentary.ca/ontheline/788-marjorie…

    Interview with Beth Carswell of AbeBooks:
    www.abebooks.com/books/authors/marjorie…

    Podcast with Chris Wood of the Banff Centre about Y, the Rocky Mountains, and capybaras:
    Banff Centre Blog, October 18, 2012

    The author who couldn’t let go of the question Y: Profile by Marsha Lederman
    Globe & Mail, Oct 10, 2012

    "Far and away, the best novel I've read this year" - National Post Book Editor Mark Medley on Toronto's Metro Morning, aired Oct 2:
    www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/1…

    Q&A on the International Festival of Authors' Blog:
    internationalfestivalofauthors.wordpres…

    Video Interview with Jennifer Hunter of The Toronto Star:
    www.thestar.com/videozone/1259774--auth…

    Q&A with CBC re: Y and the 2012 Giller Prize:
    www.cbc.ca/books/scotiabankgillerprize/…

    Y has been longlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize:
    www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/2012-longl…

    Interview with Jo-Ann Roberts for CBC All Points West:
    www.cbc.ca/allpointswest/2012/09/06/gil…

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