Mary Soderstrom

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Mary Soderstrom (born 1942) is a novelist, short story and nonfiction writer. [1]

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Her novel, The Violets of Usambara (Cormorant Books, March 2008), was supported by a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec which allowed her to do research in East Africa. That experience also shows up in her book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places (Véhicule Press). Tanga, Tanzania, the gateway to the East Usambara Mountains, is one of the 11 cities she uses in Green City as points of departure for discussing the way people have brought nature into cities over history. This travel, as well as what she did for her non-fiction book The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond (Véhicule Press, 2008) prompted her to consider the role of the Portuguese over the last 700 years in the European exploration of the world. Their story lies at the heart of Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure (Véhicule Press, Fall 2010).

The University of Regina Press published her non-fiction chronicle entitled Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States in October 2019. The book was her sixteenth book, and sixth non-fiction work. Four years previously, Cormorant Books published her sixth novel River Music [2] in May 2015. Her third short story collection, Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography, was published by Oberon Press in November 2013. It received a starred review in the January–February 2014 Quill and Quire: [3] This collection is not to be missed," writes reviewer Joy Parks.

In 2020, the University of Regina Press published Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future. In 2023, Dundurn Press published Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters. The book is the follow-up to Concrete.

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References

  1. "Hage, Grescoe, Gollner win local literary prizes". The Gazette (Montreal) . 20 November 2008. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  2. "Swept up by River Music: Mary Soderstrom's new novel charts course of pioneering pianist | Montreal Gazette".
  3. "Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography". 15 January 2014.