David Demchuk

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David Demchuk is a Canadian playwright and novelist, [1] who received a longlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize nomination in 2017 for his debut novel The Bone Mother. [2]

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Life

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [2] of Ukrainian descent, [3] he moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1984.

Literary work

His plays have included Rosalie Sings Alone (1985), [4] If Betty Should Rise (1985), [5] Touch (1986), [6] The World We Live On Turns So That the Sun Appears to Rise (1987), [1] Stay (1990), Mattachine (1991), [7] Thieves in the Night (1992) [8] and The Power of Invention. [9] He received a special Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1986 for Touch. [10] In 1992, Touch was included in Making Out, the first anthology of Canadian plays by gay writers, alongside works by Ken Garnhum, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Harry Rintoul and Colin Thomas. [11]

After the mid-1990s, Demchuk stopped writing new plays, concentrating on his work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and on writing scripts for radio, film and television. [12] In 1999, he wrote the radio drama Alice in Cyberspace, a contemporary reworking of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , which aired for ten episodes on CBC Radio's This Morning . [13] His other radio dramas included Alaska, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Winter Market. In June 2012, he became a contributing writer for the online magazine Torontoist. [14]

The Bone Mother was published in 2017 by ChiZine Publications. [15] It was the first horror-themed novel ever to receive a nomination for the Giller, an award more commonly associated with conventional literary fiction rather than genre fiction. [16] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award. [17] His new novel, RED X, published by Strange Light, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was released on August 31, 2021. [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Demchuk, David". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, March 26, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Winnipeg-born author on Giller Prize long list". CTV Winnipeg, September 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Writing the Unsaid and Forgotten: An Interview with David Demchuk". Augur. November 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Trio of one-act plays doesn't add up to much". The Globe and Mail , August 16, 1985.
  5. ↑ "Powerful, well-acted drama gains little from new first act". Toronto Star , August 8, 1986.
  6. ↑ "Two plays provide exception to stock fare at Rhubarb '86". The Globe and Mail , February 24, 1986.
  7. ↑ "Fringe helped his Betty to rise again". Toronto Star , June 28, 1991.
  8. ↑ "Fistful of gems at new play fest". Toronto Star , July 19, 1992.
  9. ↑ "The dark is needed to appreciate the light". Toronto Star , August 12, 1989.
  10. ↑ "Dora smiles on Tarragon with record 17 nominations". The Globe and Mail , May 15, 1986.
  11. ↑ "Book symbolizes gays' advances". The Globe and Mail , June 4, 1992.
  12. ↑ "Whatever happened to that hot young playwright? David Demchuk has gone to CBC but one of his plays returns." Toronto Star , May 13, 1999.
  13. ↑ "Modern Alice". Calgary Herald , December 15, 1999.
  14. ↑ Torontoist (2012-06-20). "Home, a Toronto Indie Game That Will Mess With Your Head". Torontoist. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  15. ↑ "Review: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu, David Demchuk's The Bone Mother and Pierre-Luc Landry's Listening for Jupiter". The Globe and Mail , August 25, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Three first-time authors make Giller Prize longlist". The Globe and Mail , September 18, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Sharon Bala, Omar El Akkad among finalists for $40K Amazon.ca First Novel Award". CBC Books, April 28, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Listing: RED X by David Demchuk, CBC Books".
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