Catherine Mavrikakis
Catherine Mavrikakis (born January 7, 1961) is a Canadian academic and award-winning writer living in Quebec.[1]
The daughter of a Greek father who grew up in Algeria and a French mother, she was born in Chicago and grew up in Anjou, Montréal-Nord, St. Leonard, in France and in the United States. She settled in Montreal in 1979.[1] From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Concordia University. In 2003, she joined the department of French language literature at the Université de Montréal.[2]
The 2015 virtual reality work The Unknown Photographer incorporated text by Mavrikakis.[3][4]
Selected works[1]
- Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques, novel (2000)
- Ça va aller, novel (2002)
- Fleurs de crachat, novel (2005), translated into English by Nathanaël as Flowers of Spit (2011) which was shortlisted for a ReLit Award[5]
- Condamner à mort. Le meurtre et la loi à l'écran, essay (2005), received the Prix Victor-Barbeau and was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2006[6]
- Le ciel de Bay City, novel (2008), received the Grand prix du livre de Montréal,[2] the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix littéraire des collégiens[7]
- Omaha Beach, play (2008), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award for Literary Merit in 2008[8]
- Les derniers jours de Smokey Nelson, novel (2011), shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction[9]
References
- ^ a b c "Catherine Mavrikakis" (in French). Éditions Héliotrope.
- ^ a b "La professeure Catherine Mavrikakis lauréate du Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2008" (in French). Université de Montréal.
- ^ "More NFB productions and co-productions featured at RIDM 2015". Government of Canada. November 4, 2015.
- ^ Wissot, Lauren (31 January 2016). "Experience Designing a Surrealist Museum: Loïc Suty on The Unknown Photographer". Filmmaker. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "The ReLit Awards/ Ideas, Not Money".
- ^ "Condamner à mort" (in French). Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
- ^ "Le ciel de Bay City" (in French). Éditions Héliotrope.
- ^ "Governor General's Literary Award Short List for Drama, Rawi Hage's Cockroach for Fiction". Montreal Gazette. October 2, 2008.
- ^ "Read ggreat books: Canada Council for the Arts announces the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award finalists". Canada Council for the Arts. October 2, 2012.
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