Paige Cooper

Paige Cooper is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec,[1] whose debut short story collection Zolitude was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize[2] and a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[3]

The collection derives its title from Zolitūde, an apartment block in Riga, Latvia where a major shopping centre underwent a roof collapse in 2013.[4] The book's stories have been described as speculative fiction.[5]

Her short stories have also appeared in The Fiddlehead, West Branch, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast Online, Canadian Notes & Queries, The New Quarterly and the Journey Prize anthology.[5]

Bibliography

  • Zolitude (2018)

References

  1. ↑ "Beautiful and strange". Winnipeg Free Press, March 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Tanya Tagaq among 12 authors longlisted for 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General’s fiction prize". Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Zolitude, by Paige Cooper". Quill & Quire, January 2018.
  5. 1 2 "‘Zolitude’ Is the Speculative Debut of the Year So Far". Chicago Review of Books, May 3, 2018.
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