Annabel Lyon

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Life and work

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Lyon grew up in Coquitlam, British Columbia, where she and her family moved when she was a year old.[1][2] She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.[1] In addition, she attended the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Law for one year.[1]

Lyon published her first book, Oxygen, a collection of stories, in 2000. The Best Thing for You, a collection of three novellas, followed in 2004 and was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.[1]

Her first novel, The Golden Mean, which imagines the relationship between Alexander the Great and his teacher, Aristotle, was published in 2009. It held the distinction of being the only book nominated that year for all three of Canada's major fiction prizes: the Scotiabank Giller Prize,[3] the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction,[4] and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[5] Of the three, she won the Rogers Prize.[6] The book has been translated into six languages.[7] A sequel, The Sweet Girl, which explores the life of Aristotle's daughter, Pythias, was published in September 2012.[8]

Her novel Consent was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020.[9]

She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, one of 13 cities in Metro Vancouver.

Awards and honors

Awards for Lyon's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
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2009 The Golden Mean Giller Prize Shortlist [3]
2009 The Golden Mean Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Finalist [4]
2009 The Golden Mean Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner [6]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Shortlist
2012 The Sweet Girl Giller Prize Longlist [10]
2020 Consent Giller Prize Longlist [9]
2021 Consent Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Shortlist [11][12]

Bibliography

Short fiction

  • Oxygen (2000) McClelland & Stewart
  • The Best Thing for You (2004) McClelland & Stewart
  • Saturday Night Function (2004) Biblioasis
  • Imagining ancient women. 2012. Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series, University of Alberta Press

Novels

References

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  4. ↑ a b Adrian Chamberlain, "Bookstore clerk's first offering vies with Alice Munro for top prize". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 15, 2009.
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  10. ↑ "Lyon, Richardson among authors on Giller long list". Prince George Citizen, September 5, 2012.
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