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Marjorie Celona

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Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Marjorie Celona

Notable works
  
Y

Period
  
2000s-present


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Occupation
  
novelist, short story writer

Books
  
Y, Y: roman, Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler

Nationality
  
Canadian and American

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Marjorie Celona (born January 7, 1981) is an American-Canadian writer. Her debut novel, Y, published in 2012, won the Waterstones 11 literary prize and was a shortlisted nominee for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Celona studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award in 2008 for her short story "Othello".

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References

Marjorie Celona Wikipedia