Marianne Apostolides
Occupationnovelist, memoirist
NationalityCanadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksSwim, Voluptuous Pleasure

Marianne Apostolides is a Canadian novelist and memoirist.[1] She is best known for her 2009 novel Swim, whose French-language translation by Madeleine Stratford was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation at the 2016 Governor General's Awards,[2] and her 2012 memoir Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth About the Writing Life, which was named one of the 100 best books of the year by The Globe and Mail.[3]

Works

  • Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia (1998)[4]
  • Swim (2009)[5]
  • The Lucky Child (2010)[6]
  • Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth About the Writing Life (2012)[7]
  • Sophrosyne (2014)[8]
  • Deep Salt Water (2017)
  • I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (2020)[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Écriture-thérapie, fiction ou vérité vraie?". Le Devoir, March 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Des auteurs de la région finalistes pour les Prix littéraires du gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, October 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Globe 100". The Globe and Mail, November 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia". Quill & Quire, August 1998.
  5. ↑ "Swimming through the sea of language". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Review: The Lucky Child, by Marianne Apostolides". The Globe and Mail, July 21, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Writing about writing in a 'post-literate' age". The Globe and Mail, May 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Sensual novel examines self-restraint in a digital age". Vancouver Sun, January 31, 2015.
  9. ↑ "47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020". CBC Books, February 5, 2020.


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