Cordelia Strube

‘’’Cordelia Strube’’’ is a Canadian playwright and novelist.

Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, ‘’Mortal’’, she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, ‘’Alex & Zee’’, in 1994.^[1] The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her third novel, ‘’Teaching Pigs to Sing’’, was a nominee for the English language fiction award in the 1996 Governor General's Awards.

Her novel ‘’Lemon’’ was named to the longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award.^[2]

Works

Novels

• ‘’Alex & Zee’’ (1994)
• ‘’Milton’s Elements’’ (1995)
• ‘’Teaching Pigs to Sing’’ (1996)
• ‘’Dr. Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaurant’’ (1997)
• ‘’The Barking Dog’’ (2000)
• ‘’Blind Night’’ (2004)
• ‘’Planet Reese’’ (2007) Dundurn Press
• ‘’Lemon’’ (2009)
• ‘’Milosz’’ (2012)
• ‘’On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light’’ (2016) ECW Press

Plays

• ‘’Fine’’ (1985)
• ‘’Mortal’’ (1986)
• ‘’Shape’’ (1987)
• ‘’Scar Tissue’’ (1987)
• ‘’Attached’’ (1988)
• ‘’Caught in the Intersection’’ (1988)
• ‘’Marshmallow’’ (1988)
• ‘’Mid-Air’’ (1989)
• ‘’Absconder’’ (1989)
• ‘’On the Beach’’ (1989)
• ‘’Past Due’’ (1989)

References

1. "Inconvenient truths". ‘’Quill & Quire‘’, April 2007.
2. "Rachman, Bergen, Urquhart and Coupland on Giller long list". ‘’The Globe and Mail‘’, September 20, 2010.

External links

• Cordelia Strube