Cordelia strube biography of rory

Canadian playwright and novelist

Cordelia Strube (born 1960), 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.

Cordelia strube biography of rory

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] In 2016, she won the City of Toronto Book Award for On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light.^[3]

Works

Novels

• Alex & Zee (1994)
• Milton's Elements (1995)
• Teaching Pigs to Sing (1996)
• Dr.

  Kalbfleisch and the Chicken Restaur