Jocelyn Parr (writer)

Jocelyn Parr is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut novel Uncertain Weights and Measures was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.[2] Uncertain Weights and Measures began as a Masters thesis in the Creative Writing Program at Concordia University.[3] Set in post-revolutionary Moscow, the novel traces the life of a young research scientist working at a brain institute that housed Lenin's brain, and that of the man she loves, Sasha, whose artistic ambitions run afoul of the state-sanctioned aesthetics. A writer for The Walrus suggests the book could "very well be read as a cautionary allegory of our 'brave and visionary time.'"[1]

Born in New Zealand, she grew up on the West Coast of Canada and is now a history professor at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. Her writing has previously appeared in literary magazines such as Brick, Grain and Matrix.

References

  1. 1 2 "Uncertain Weights and Measures". The Walrus, October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Finalists named for 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ "2017 GGs celebrate creative writing alumni". Concordia University English Department. October 4, 2017.



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