Mary Novik

Mary Novik (* 1945 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian writer, the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize won.

Life

Mary Novik was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in a large family with five siblings. The grandparents were both from Birmingham and considered themselves to her life as an Englishman. This way of life they gave in many ways to their grandchildren on. Since, according to the words of Mary Novik's children were left at that time in the rural area largely themselves, they have turned to in early days of literature whose suggestions received by the Büchereibus. Later the family moved to Surrey. Only 17 years old, she moved to the University, where she studied English literature and her future husband met.

After she taught creative writing for many years at Langara College and has also published several professional publications on Robert Creeley, she decided to write a novel in retirement. A first, unpublished, copy was well received at an internal publishing house competition, so she decided to further experiment with Conceit (2007 ), which was discussed very positively by critics.

This historical novel describes the life of Pegge Donne, the daughter of the metaphysical poet John Donne, and plays in the London of the 17th century. Other novel characters based on Donne's wife Anne More, the diarist Samuel Pepys and the biographer Izaak Walton.

Conceit won the belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was on the longlist of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was named Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire. Abebooks described it as Canadian Book of the Year.

Novik founded together with Jen Sookfong Lee and June Hutton, the Vancouver - writing group SPiN.

Mary Novik lives in Vancouver with her husband, near her son, his wife and her grandson.

Work

  • Robert Creeley: A Biography Writing and Inventory. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1973 Posted in:. Robert Creeley: An Inventory, 1945-1970. Kent State University Press, Kent OH 1973
  • Conceit. Doubleday, Toronto, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-66205-5
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