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Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The novel was also shortlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada). Mayr's other novels have won the ReLit Award and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, and been nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean Region, the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro- Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. Mayr has done interdisciplinary work with Calgary theatre company Theatre Junction, and visual artists Lisa Brawn and Geoff Hunter. She has also published articles in journals such as Horror Studies, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. She is a former President of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. Mayr teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is a Killam Laureate.
'Spellbinding and playful ... A stylistic tour de force.' -- National Post 'Monoceros is one of the most imaginative, quirky and emotionally devastating novels I've read in a long while.' -- Zoe Whittall, Globe and Mail' '[A] smart and difficult tale about grief and acceptance ... [Monoceros] just might be the most important book you read.' -- CBC Books 'In a tragedy laced with humour, Mayr engages readers with her meticulous attention to detail, providing vivid descriptions of not only her characters, but also the heavy emotions ... churning inside them.' -- This Magazine '[A] complex and moving novel deserving of a large and attentive readership.' -- Quill and Quire 'Ms. Mayr's characterizations are second to none and she has a wonderful wit. [Monoceros] should be on all school curricula.' -- Winnipeg Review
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