Elizabeth Hay (novelist)

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 as an interviewer and documentary maker for CBC Radio in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Toronto, Ontario. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as a freelance broadcaster in Mexico. From 1986 - 1992 she lived in New York City where she taught creative writing at New York University. In 1992, she and her family returned to Canada and settled in Ottawa, where she continues to live.

Her novel "A Student of Weather" (2000) was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award. She has been a nominee for the Governor General's Award twice, for "Small Change" in 1997 and for "Garbo Laughs" in 2003.

In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work — including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.

Hay's 2007 novel "Late Nights on Air" won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. "A Student of Weather" was also previously nominated in 2000.

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)
* "Late Nights on Air" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009964 Elizabeth Hay's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20071105a.html Elizabeth Hay audio interview on Late Nights on Air 2007]
* [http://www.booklounge.ca/multimedia/hayelizabeth/index.html Elizabeth Hay video interview on Late Nights on Air 2007]