Mary Swan
Appearance
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![]() Swan at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013 |
Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel The Boys in the Trees, a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[1] was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family.
Swan was the winner of the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction for her short story "The Deep", which was published in The Malahat Review. That story later became the title story of her debut short story collection The Deep and Other Stories in 2002.
A graduate of York University and the University of Guelph, she currently resides in Guelph, Ontario with her family.
Bibliography
[edit]- The Deep, The Porcupine's Quill, 2002, ISBN 0-88984-248-5
- Emma’s Hands, The Porcupine's Quill, 2003, ISBN 0-88984-268-X
- Boys in the Trees, Henry Holt and Company, 2008, ISBN 0-8050-8670-6
References
[edit]- ^ "Giller short list unveiled", The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2008.
External links
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- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian librarians
- Canadian women librarians
- York University alumni
- University of Guelph alumni
- People from Guelph
- Writers from Ontario
- Living people
- Canadian women short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- O. Henry Award winners
- Canadian writer stubs