Sharon Bala | |
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 Bala at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018 | |
| Born | Dubai, UAE |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | |
| Notable awards | Journey Prize (2017) |
| Website | |
| www | |
Sharon Bala (born April 3, 1979) is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [1]
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Her debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2015 Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts. [2] It was later published by McClelland and Stewart and Doubleday in January 2018. [3] The book was internationally publicized as part of Penguin Random House's One World, One Book campaign. [4]
The book was selected for the 2018 edition of Canada Reads , where it was defended by Mozhdah Jamalzadah. [5] It won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, was a finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award, [6] and was shortlisted for the 2015 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers [7] and the 2019 Thomas Head Raddall Award. [8]
Bala was the winner of the 2017 Journey Prize for her short story "Butter Tea at Starbucks", [9] and was longlisted for the 2017 National Magazine Award for fiction for her short story "Miloslav". [10] Her short fiction has appeared in Hazlitt , Grain , The Dalhousie Review , Riddle Fence, Room , Prism International , Maisonneuve , Joyland , The New Quarterly , and in an anthology called Racket: New Writing From Newfoundland. [11]
