Catherine Mavrikakis

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Catherine Mavrikakis (born January 7, 1961) is a Canadian academic and writer living in Quebec. [1]

The daughter of a Greek father who grew up in Algeria and a French mother, she was born in Chicago and grew up in Anjou, Montréal-Nord, St. Leonard, in France and in the United States. She settled in Montreal in 1979. [1] From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Concordia University. In 2003, she joined the department of French language literature at the Université de Montréal. [2]

The 2015 virtual reality work The Unknown Photographer incorporated text by Mavrikakis. [3] [4]

Selected works

[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catherine Mavrikakis" (in French). Éditions Héliotrope. Archived from the original on 2017-01-08. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. 1 2 "La professeure Catherine Mavrikakis lauréate du Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2008" (in French). Université de Montréal.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "More NFB productions and co-productions featured at RIDM 2015". Government of Canada. November 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ Wissot, Lauren (31 January 2016). "Experience Designing a Surrealist Museum: Loïc Suty on The Unknown Photographer". Filmmaker . Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "The ReLit Awards/ Ideas, Not Money".
  6. ↑ "Condamner à mort" (in French). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
  7. ↑ "Le ciel de Bay City" (in French). Éditions Héliotrope.
  8. ↑ "Governor General's Literary Award Short List for Drama, Rawi Hage's Cockroach for Fiction". Montreal Gazette. October 2, 2008.
  9. ↑ "Read ggreat books: Canada Council for the Arts announces the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award finalists". Canada Council for the Arts. October 2, 2012.


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