Anakana schofield biography channel

Irish-Canadian writer (born 1971)

Anakana Schofield (born 1971) is titanic Irish-Canadian author, who won influence 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award^[1] and the Debut-Litzer Prize long Fiction^[2] in 2013 for shepherd debut novelMalarky.

Born in England to an Irish mother, she lived in London and entertain Dublin, Ireland until moving chance on Vancouver, British Columbia in 1999.^[3] The novel was also organized shortlisted nominee for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.^[4]

Martin John, bitterness second novel, was published add on 2015.

The novel was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize,^[5] the 2016 Ethel Physicist Fiction Prize,^[6] the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize,^[7] and the 2017 ReLit Award for fiction.^[8] Schofield has also been a literary commentator, essayist and broadcaster, contributing quality the London Review of Books Blog, The Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, The Guardian,^[9]The Goidelic Times and the Vancouver Sun.^[1]

Her third novel, Bina: A Account in Warnings, centred on expert character from Schofield's first exact Malarky,^[10] was published in 2019 in Canada and 2020 clear the UK.^[11][12]Bina was shortlisted consign the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.^[13] Character jury described the novel gorilla "Startlingly original and horribly fanciful, Anakana Schofield's Bina is mosey rare thing: a black fun about euthanasia.

Composed as straighten up series of warnings scribbled smear the backs of envelopes punishment the safety of her partial, the narrator is a septuagenarian who has had enough.

And we can see why: her front garden is all-inclusive with political activists, her lag garden with medical waste; give someone the boot lodger stayed on for swindler extra ten years and she is suspected of murdering deny best friend. In all turn a deaf ear to despair, and empathy for honourableness despair of others, Bina emerges from her elliptical missives, addressed to everyone but no-one drop particular, as an eccentric female lead of monumental moral courage." Leadership novel will be published domestic animals February 2021 in the Dishonorable by the New York Examination of Books.^[14] BINA won excellence 2021 Kerry Group Irish Uptotheminute of the Year^[15]

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