Johanna Skibsrud
CanadianLiterary Fictionb. 1980
Johanna Skibsrud is a Canadian-American writer and academic, born in 1980 in Nova Scotia. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer, best known for her debut novel, 'The Sentimentalists', which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the Université de Montréal and is a Professor of English at the University of Arizona.
Awards
['Scotiabank Giller Prize (2010)', 'Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry (2017)', 'Fred Cogswell Award (2017)']
Notable Works
['The Sentimentalists', 'This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories', 'Quartet for the End of Time', 'Island', 'Late Nights with Wild Cowboys']
