Elizabeth Hay (novelist)
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Elizabeth Grace Hay (born 22 October 1951) is a Canadian novelist.
Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, she was educated at the University of Toronto. Hay worked for CBC Radio as an interviewer and documentarian in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Toronto, Ontario. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as a freelance broadcaster in Latin America.
She now lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Her novel A Student of Weather (2000) was nominated for the Giller Prize. She has twice been a nominee for the Governor General's Award, for Small Change in 1997 and for Garbo Laughs in 2003.
In 2001, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work.
[edit] Bibliography
- Crossing the Shadow Line (1989)
- The Only Snow in Havana (1992)
- Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (1993)
- Only Snow in Havana (1996)
- Small Change (1997)
- A Student of Weather (2000)
- Garbo Laughs (2003)
