Méira Cook
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- Cook, Méira
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- Cook, Méira
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-05-14
- Geslacht
- female
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Woonplaatsen
- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Opleiding
- University of the Witwatersrand (MA)
University of Manitoba (PhD | Canadian Literature) - Beroepen
- novelist
poet
literary critic - Korte biografie
- Méira Cook is an award-winning poet, novelist, and literary critic. She was born in Johannesburg where she worked as a freelance arts and culture correspondent before moving to Winnipeg. Dr. Cook holds a PhD specializing in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia.. Her poetry won first place in the CBC Literary Awards in 2007, has been published in The Best Canadian Poetry of 2008, and has been featured in Winnipeg Transit's "Poetry in Motion" program. Méira's first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2013. She has been the poetry editor of Prairie Fire Magazine and has taught creative writing classes at the University of Manitoba.
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Méira Cook has a gift for writing about the eccentricities of daily life. Her characters feel like they could be your neighbours, your family members, with all of their hilarity and poignance and quirks. And along the way, she tells a beautiful story about families, love, community, and truly seeing one another.
If you like funny/poignant books about small towns and their inhabitants, definitely give this one a whirl.
Also, this book has one of the best openings I've ever encountered in fiction -- an amazing inciting incident where you can see something unfolding, and you don't know where you're going, but you know you're in for a ride along the way.… (meer)