Paige Cooper

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Paige Cooper is a Canadian writer, originally from Canmore, Alberta [1] and currently based in Montreal, Quebec. [2] Her debut short story collection Zolitude was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize, [3] a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, [4] a shortlisted finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2018, [5] and a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. [6] Zolitude won the 2018 Concordia University First Book Prize. [7] A French translation of Zolitude was published by Éditions du Boréal in 2019. [8] The French translation was shortlisted for Le Prix de Traduction de la Fondation Cole in 2020. [9]

The collection derives its title from Zolitūde, an apartment block in Riga, Latvia where a major shopping centre underwent a roof collapse in 2013. [10] The book's stories have been described as speculative fiction. [11]

Her short stories have also appeared in The Fiddlehead , West Branch , Michigan Quarterly Review , Gulf Coast Online , Canadian Notes & Queries , The New Quarterly and the Journey Prize anthology. [11]

In 2019, Paige was voted 3rd best living author in Montreal. [12]

In 2020, she edited a collection of short stories, Best Canadian Stories 2020. [13]

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  1. ↑ Volmers, Eric (October 5, 2018). "Canmore native Paige Cooper writes dystopian love stories for an uncertain time and place". Calgary Herald .
  2. ↑ "Beautiful and strange". Winnipeg Free Press , March 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Tanya Tagaq among 12 authors longlisted for 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General's fiction prize". Toronto Star , October 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction – Quebec Writers' Federation". qwf.org. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  6. ↑ "Carrianne Leung wins $10,000 short fiction prize for 'That Time I Loved You'". CTV News, June 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Concordia University First Book Prize – Quebec Writers' Federation". qwf.org. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  8. ↑ Tardif, Dominic (2019-11-16). ""Zolitude": Paige Cooper à la frontière entre paranoïa et lucidité". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  9. ↑ "Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation – Quebec Writers' Federation". qwf.org. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  10. ↑ "Zolitude, by Paige Cooper". Quill & Quire , January 2018.
  11. 1 2 "'Zolitude' Is the Speculative Debut of the Year So Far". Chicago Review of Books, May 3, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Best of MTL 2019: Film & Arts". Cult MTL. 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  13. ↑ Cooper, Paige; editor; Biblioasis. ""All of the Pieces are Aware of and Concerned With the Unknowable": Paige Cooper on Taking Up the Best Canadian Stories Mantle". open-book.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-08.{{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)


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