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Name
  
Cordelia Strube


Role
  
Playwright

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Nominations
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Books
  
Exhilarating Prose: Cognition, Alex & Zee, Teaching pigs to sing, Planet Reese, Milosz

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Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist.

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Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, Mortal, she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, Alex & Zee, in 1994. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, was a nominee for the English language fiction award in the 1996 Governor General's Awards.

Her novel Lemon was named to the longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award. In 2016, she won the City of Toronto Book Award for On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light.

2016 Toronto Book Awards: Cordelia Strube, On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light


Novels

  • Alex & Zee (1994)
  • Milton’s Elements (1995)
  • Teaching Pigs to Sing (1996)
  • Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant (1997)
  • The Barking Dog (2000)
  • Blind Night (2004)
  • Planet Reese (2007)
  • Lemon (2009)
  • Milosz (2012)
  • On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light (2016)
  • Plays

  • Fine (1985)
  • Mortal (1986)
  • Shape' (1987)
  • Scar Tissue (1987)
  • Attached (1988)
  • Caught in the Intersection (1988)
  • Marshmallow (1988)
  • Mid-Air (1989)
  • Absconder (1989)
  • On the Beach (1989)
  • Past Due (1989)
  • References

    Cordelia Strube Wikipedia