Name Alix Hawley | Role Novelist | |
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Books All True Not a Lie in It, The Old Familiar | ||
Alix Hawley’s Daniel Boone is morally conflicted, in ‘vivid, disturbing’ novel
Alix Hawley (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, All True Not a Lie In It (Knopf 2015), won the amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2015.
Contents
- Alix Hawleys Daniel Boone is morally conflicted in vivid disturbing novel
- Early Life and Work
- Writing
- Personal life
- References
Early Life and Work
Hawley was born in Vancouver in 1975, but moved shortly afterwards to Kelowna, British Columbia, where she began writing early. She studied for her BA (Honors) in English Literature, with a minor in Nineteenth-Century Studies, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she won the Governor General’s medal as the top graduating student in the faculty of Arts. She moved to the UK to complete a M.St. and D.Phil. under Hermione Lee’s supervision at Oxford University; her thesis discusses Virginia Woolf and nineteenth-century children’s culture. She went on to complete an MA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of East Anglia, studying with Andrew Motion, Richard Holmes, and Paul Magrs. She lists her favourite authors as: Alice Munro, Patricia Highsmith, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Colm Toibin, Peter Carey, and Hilary Mantel among many others.
Writing
Hawley's first book, The Old Familiar (Thistledown Press, 2008), is a collection of short stories; The Globe and Mail referred to it this way: “’Genius’ is a word I hesitate to use in a review; Hawley's work requires it.” and it was longlisted for the ReLit award. Her story "Witching" won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction in 2017. "Jumbo" was runner-up in 2014, and “Tentcity” was runner-up in 2011. “Little Boy” was shortlisted in 2009. In 2013, Hawley's short story "Pig (for Oma)" was the winner of the Canada Writes "Bloodlines" short memoir contest. Her story was chosen out of over 800 entries.
Her novel, All True Not a Lie In It (Knopf 2015), is a first-person account of Daniel Boone’s captivity by the Shawnee, and was signed to Knopf as part of the New Face of Fiction Program. The novel won the amazon.ca First Novel Award and the BC Book Prize for Fiction in 2015, and was longlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Personal life
Hawley is affiliated with Okanagan College in Kelowna, where she lives with her family.
