Chris Scott (writer)

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Chris Scott
Born1945
Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
Occupationnovelist, short story writer
NationalityEnglish-Canadian
Period1970s-2010s
Notable works"Bartleby", Antichthon, Jack

Chris Scott (born 1945 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England) [1] is an English-Canadian writer. His novel Antichthon was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, [2] and his novel Jack won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 1989. His novel, Bartleby was republished in Glasgow in 2016. [3]

Educated at the University of Hull, Manchester University, Scott has taught at York University in Toronto and Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. [4] He became a Canadian citizen in 1975, [1] and resided on a farm in Lanark County, Ontario during much of his writing career. [3]

He is noted for his mixture of genre literature with experimental fiction; Antichthon, for example, applied the format and tropes of a contemporary spy novel to a historical retelling of the 1593 heresy trial of Giordano Bruno, [5] and Jack took as its premise that Thomas Neill Cream, a Scottish-Canadian doctor and murderer, was the real Jack the Ripper. [1] [4]

He has also been a contributor to CBC Radio and a book reviewer for Books in Canada, The Globe and Mail , the Montreal Gazette , the Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star . [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ripper from Ottawa Valley?" Ottawa Citizen , January 7, 1989.
  2. "Finalists declared in literary awards". The Globe and Mail , May 25, 1983.
  3. 1 2 "Farmer in spring, award-winning writer in winter". Ottawa Citizen , June 15, 1989.
  4. 1 2 3 Chris Scott fonds. - 1969-1984. Library and Archives Canada.
  5. W. H. New, A History of Canadian Literature. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. ISBN   9780773571365. p. 273.