Name Tessa McWatt | Role Writer | |
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Nominations Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books Higher Ed: A Novel, Out of My Skin, This Body, Dragons cry, Step Closer | ||
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Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer and currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East London, UK.
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She is the author of novels, stories, essays and libretto, along with There’s No Place Like… a novella for young adults. Her second novel, Dragons Cry (2001), was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General Awards of Canada. Her other novels include Out of My Skin (1998; second edition Cormorant Books 2012), This Body (HarperCollins 2004 and Macmillan Caribbean 2005), Step Closer (HarperCollins 2009), Vital Signs (Random House Canada 2011 and William Heinemann 2012), which was nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and Higher Ed (Random House Canada and Scribe UK, 2015).
McWatt is providing the libretto for Hannah Kendall's opera The Knife of Dawn, based on the incarceration of political activist Martin Carter in the then British Guiana in 1953.