Rebecca Rosenblum

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Rebecca Rosenblum
Born (1978-05-23) May 23, 1978 (age 46)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Author
Website
www.rebeccarosenblum.com

Rebecca Rosenblum (born May 23, 1978) is a Canadian author best known for her short stories.

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Life

Rosenblum was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She attended McGill University and received her Honours Bachelor of English in 2001, and in 2007 she graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing. [1]

Writing career

In November 2007, Rosenblum was awarded the Metcalf-Rooke Award, an award for unpublished manuscripts established by Canadian publisher Biblioasis. [2] [3] Rosenblum won the award for Once, a collection of short stories, which was published by Biblioasis on September 15, 2008. [1]

In February 2008, Rosenblum's story "Chilly Girl" was announced as one of three finalists for the 2007 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, awarded annually to a new and developing writer of distinction for a short story published in a Canadian literary journal in the previous year. [4] [5] In Spring 2009, Rosenblum was a juror for the Journey Prize 21. [4]

In May 2009, Once was one of three finalists for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. [6] In the summer of that year, Once was longlisted for the Relit Award. A story from the collection, "Linh Lai", was shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Awards in the fiction category. [5] [7]

Her second book, The Big Dream (September 2011), is a collection of linked short stories set at a fictional Toronto magazine publisher. [8] It was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. [5]

In March 2017, Rosenblum released her first novel, So Much Love. [9] The story of the abduction of a young poet, Catherine Reindeer, it is narrated by multiple characters associated with the event. It was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award and translated into French and Polish. [5] [10] [11]

Works

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Rose-Coloured". rebeccarosenblum.com. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Blagic, Nikolina (2022). BIBLIOASIS: A CASE STUDY OF A SMALL CANADIAN PRESS (Master of Arts thesis). Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Biblioasis names Metcalf-Rooke winner". Quill & Quire. 26 November 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Rebecca Rosenblum". Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Rebecca Rosenblum". University of Toronto. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Canadian Books and Authors. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "Daily Bulletin". University of Waterloo. 27 April 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Big Dream". Quill & Quire. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  9. ↑ "So Much Love". Quill & Quire. 17 April 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  10. ↑ "Finalists announced for Amazon.ca First Novel Award". The Globe and Mail. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Trillium Book Award & Prix Trillium 2018 finalists announced". Toronto Guardian. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
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