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Michael Mirolla

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Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario. Mirolla was awarded the Bressani Award for his novel Berlin in 2010.[1] He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.[2]

Early life and education

In 1951, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brothers from the town of Jelsi in Italy to Montreal, Canada at the age of four.[2] He moved to Ontario in 1993 and lived in Toronto before moving to Oakville in 2012. [3] Mirolla graduated from McGill University and completed a masters in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.[2]

Works

Novels

  • Torp: the landlord, the husband, the wife and the lover (2016)[4]
  • The Giulio Metaphysics III (2013)
  • The Ballad of Martin B. a novella (2011)
  • The Facility (2010)
  • Berlin (2008)[1]

Short fiction

  • Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2015)
  • Hothouse Loves & Other Tales (2007)
  • The Formal Logic of Emotion (1992)

Poetry

  • The House on 14th Avenue (2013)
  • Light And Time (2010)
  • Interstellar Distances (2009)

Plays

  • Gargoyles
  • Snails
  • A Revised Experiment

References

  1. ^ a b "Michael Mirolla – Guernica Editions". guernicaeditions.com. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c ""It's My Identity" - Michael Mirolla talks about his love of literature". Panoram. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ^ ""Oakville author Michael Mirolla talks normal life, abnormal fiction". Inside Halton. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  4. ^ "» Torp". quillandquire.com. Retrieved 24 July 2016.