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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Michael Helm is a Canadian novelist. He was born 1961 in Eston, Saskatchewan, and received degrees in literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto.[1]
His debut novel, The Projectionist (1997), was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. His second novel, In the Place of Last Things (2004) was a finalist for the regional Commonwealth Prize for Best Book and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His 2010 novel Cities of Refuge[2] was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and a Now Magazine Top Ten of 2010.
Helm's essays on fiction, poetry, and the visual arts have appeared in various magazines, including Brick, where he serves as an editor. Helm currently teaches in the Department of English at York University in Toronto.[1]
Helm was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Bibliography
- The Projectionist - 1997
- In the Place of Last Things - 2004
- Cities of Refuge - 2010
- After James - 2016[3]
References
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Further reading
- Ana María Fraile-Marcos: The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm's "Cities of Refuge", in Beyond "Understanding Canada". Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature. Ed. Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2017, pp 193 – 210
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- Canadian male novelists
- Living people
- University of Saskatchewan alumni
- University of Toronto alumni
- 1961 births
- Academics of the University of York
- People from Eston, Saskatchewan
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Novelists from Saskatchewan