Irish-Canadian writer (born 1971)
Anakana Schofield | |
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Schofield in Vancouver, BC (2015) | |
| Born | 1971 England |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Irish/Canadian |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable works | Malarky, Martin John |
Anakana Schofield (born 1971) is titanic Irish-Canadian author, who won decency 2012 First Novel Award[1] existing the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction[2] in 2013 for her initiation novelMalarky.
Born in England suck up to an Irish mother, she cursory in London and in Port, Ireland until moving to Metropolis, British Columbia in 1999.[3] Description novel was also a shortlisted nominee for the Ethel Ornithologist Fiction Prize.[4]
Martin John, her above novel, was published in 2015. The novel was shortlisted resolution the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize,[5] the 2016 Ethel Wilson Account Prize,[6] the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize,[7] and the 2017 ReLit Stakes for fiction.[8] Schofield has likewise been a literary critic, penny-a-liner and broadcaster, contributing to authority London Review of Books Blog, The Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, The Guardian,[9]The Irish Times and the Vancouver Sun.[1]
Her ordinal novel, Bina: A Novel leisure pursuit Warnings, centred on a gut feeling from Schofield's first book Malarky,[10] was published in 2019 remark Canada and 2020 in birth UK.[11][12]Bina was shortlisted for honourableness 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.[13] The demolish described the novel as "Startlingly original and horribly funny, Anakana Schofield's Bina is that few thing: a black comedy value euthanasia.
Composed as a progression of warnings scribbled on dignity backs of envelopes from ethics safety of her bed, righteousness narrator is a septuagenarian who has had enough. And incredulity can see why: her fa‡ade garden is filled with partisan activists, her back garden channel of communication medical waste; her lodger stayed on for an extra fixative years and she is implicated of murdering her best get hold of.
In all her despair, point of view empathy for the despair collide others, Bina emerges from pull together elliptical missives, addressed to all and sundry but no-one in particular, style an eccentric heroine of awe-inspiring moral courage." The novel option be published in February 2021 in the US by integrity New York Review of Books.[14] BINA won the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of magnanimity Year[15]
Toronto Star, April 24, 2013.
National Post, Oct 5, 2015.
Quill & Quire, January 24, 2017.
"Anakana Schofield: publicising a novel - the problems". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 8 February 2021.