Anakana Schofield

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Anakana Schofield
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Schofield in Vancouver, BC (2015)
Born1971
England
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIrish/Canadian
Period2010s-present
Notable worksMalarky, Martin John
Website
anakanaschofield.com

Anakana Schofield (born 1971) is an Irish-Canadian author, who won the 2012 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]

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Martin John, her second novel, was published in 2015. The novel was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize, [5] the 2016 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, [6] the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, [7] and the 2017 ReLit Award for fiction. [8] 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 , [9] The Irish Times and the Vancouver Sun . [1]

Her third novel, Bina: A Novel in Warnings, centred on Our Woman's best friend from her first book Malarky, [10] was published in 2019 in Canada and 2020 in UK. [11] Bina was shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. [12] The jury described the novel as "Startlingly original and horribly funny, Anakana Schofield's Bina is that rare thing: a black comedy about euthanasia. Composed as a series of warnings scribbled on the backs of envelopes from the safety of her bed, the narrator is a septuagenarian who has had enough. And we can see why: her front garden is filled with political activists, her back garden with medical waste; her lodger stayed on for an extra ten years and she is suspected of murdering her best friend. In all her despair, and empathy for the despair of others, Bina emerges from her elliptical missives, addressed to everyone but no-one in particular, as an eccentric heroine of monumental moral courage." The novel will be published in February, 2021 in the US by the New York Review of Books. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Quill, Gregg, "Anakana Schofield's Malarky wins First Novel Award". Toronto Star , April 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Winners of the 2013 Debut-litzer Prizes - Late Night Library". Late Night Library. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "First time lucky". Quill & Quire , August 2012.
  4. ↑ "Schofield, Gaston highlight B.C. Book Prize nominees" Archived July 13, 2013, at archive.today . National Post , March 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Keeler, Emily M., "Giller short list highlights Heather O'Neill, Anakana Schofield, and André Alexis". National Post, October 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ Robertson, Becky, "Alix Hawley, Anakana Schofield among B.C. Book Prize finalists". Quill & Quire, March 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Flood, Alison, "Goldsmiths prize shortlists novels 'that break the mould'". The Guardian , September 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Tobias, Conan, "2016 ReLit nominees announced". Quill & Quire, January 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ Schofield, Anakana (25 July 2013). "Anakana Schofield: publicising a novel - the problems". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "Berton House writer wrapping up" . Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Bina". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Bina". New York Review Books. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
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