Mona Awad
Mona Awad | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | novelist, short stories |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2010s |
| Notable works | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl |
Mona Awad is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.[1] Her debut book 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, a novel (structured using linked short stories) about a woman's lifelong struggle with body image issues,[2] won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award[3] and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2016.[4]
Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Mississauga, Ontario,[1] Awad has studied English literature at York University, Brown University[1] and the University of Denver.[5] Her short fiction and non-fiction writing has been published in magazines including McSweeney's, The Walrus, Joyland, Post Road, St. Petersburg Review and Maisonneuve.
References
- ^ a b c "Mona Awad gives us 13 ways to look at 'fat girls'". Toronto Star, February 21, 2016.
- ^ "Review: Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is beautifully told and profoundly sensitive". The Globe and Mail, February 19, 2016.
- ^ "Mona Awad wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award". CBC Books, May 26, 2016.
- ^ "Thien, Barwin, Donoghue make Giller Prize shortlist ". Globe and Mail, September 26, 2016.
- ^ "Mona Awad wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award: ‘When I was writing the book, frankly, I never thought it would see the light of day’". The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2016.
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