Elizabeth Hay (novelist)
Canadian novelist and short story writer (born 1951) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elizabeth Grace Hay (born October 22, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.[1]
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Born | (1951-10-22) October 22, 1951 (age 72) Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | novelist and short story writer |
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Period | contemporary |
Genre | fiction |
Notable works | Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, Small Change, Garbo Laughs, Alone in the Classroom, His Whole Life, All Things Consoled |
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Her 2007 novel Late Nights on Air won the Giller Prize. Her first novel A Student of Weather (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award.[2] She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, for her short-story collection Small Change in 1997 and her novel Garbo Laughs in 2003. His Whole Life (2015) was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Hay's memoir about the last years of her parents' lives, All Things Consoled, won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her most recent novel, Snow Road Station, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker.[3]
In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work ā including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.