Gail Scott (writer)
| Gail Scott | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1945 (age 70–71) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | novelist, translator, journalist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1970s-present |
| Notable works | My Paris, The Obituary, Biting the Error |
Gail Scott (born 1945) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator,[1] best known for her work in experimental forms such as prose poetry[1] and New Narrative.[2]
Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1945,[3] she was raised in rural Eastern Ontario and educated at Queen's University and the University of Grenoble[3] before moving to Montreal, Quebec in 1967.[2] Initially working as a journalist, she was a founding editor of publications such as The Last Post, Des luttes et des rires des femmes, Spirale and Tessera.[2] Beginning in 1980, she taught journalism at Concordia University until 1991, and published novels and essay collections.[3] While she has never published a poetry collection of her own, her prose work draws heavily on poetic forms and structures, and was anthologized in Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (2009).[1]
She was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for The Sailor's Disquiet, her translation of Michael Delisle's Le Désarroi du matelot.[4] She has also published translations of Delisle's Helen avec un secret, Lise Tremblay's La danse juive and France Théoret's Laurence.[2]
She has been a two-time nominee for the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards, for Heroine in 1988[5] and for Main Brides in 1993.[6] With Mary Burger, Robert Glück and Camille Roy, she was a coeditor of Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, which was a Lambda Literary Award nominee for Non-Fiction Anthologies at the 17th Lambda Literary Awards in 2005.[7]
Her novel The Obituary was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal.[8]
Works
- Spare Parts (1981)
- Heroine (1987, ISBN 978-0889224155)
- Spaces Like Stairs (1989, ISBN 978-0889611313)
- Main Brides (1993, ISBN 978-0889104563)
- My Paris (1999, ISBN 978-1564782977)
- Spare Parts Plus Two (2002, ISBN 978-1552451014)
- Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004, ISBN 978-1552451427)
- The Obituary (2010, ISBN 978-1552452332)
References
- 1 2 3 "The Conversationalist: Interview With Gail Scott". Maisonneuve, October 28, 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 "Writing-Translating (from) the In-Between: An Interview with Gail Scott". Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 31, Number 2 (2006).
- 1 2 3 Lianne Moyes, Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works. Guernica Editions, 2002. ISBN 978-1550711646. p. 231.
- ↑ "The kindest cut of all: The G-G's shortlist". The Globe and Mail, October 24, 2001.
- ↑ "15 writers vying for first English-language Quebec book awards". Montreal Gazette, September 2, 1988.
- ↑ "QSPELL Book Awards' shortlist announced". Montreal Gazette, September 21, 1993.
- ↑ 17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 9, 2005.
- ↑ "Five vying for book prize". Montreal Gazette, November 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Gay writing for women still a small, exotic flowering in Canada". The Globe and Mail, April 16, 1994.