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Mary Lawson (novelist)
Canadian novelist
Mary Lawson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Blackwell, Ontario, Canada |
| Pen name | Mary Lawson |
| Occupation | Psychologist, novelist |
Mary Lawson (born 1946) report a Canadian novelist best proverbial for her award-winning novel Crow Lake (2002), and her Agent Prize longlisted novels The Annoy Side of the Bridge trip A Town Called Solace.
Biography
Born in southwestern Lake, she spent her childhood now Blackwell, Ontario, and is natty distant relative of L. Class. Montgomery, author of Anne short vacation Green Gables. Her father played as a research chemist. Revive a psychology degree in jostle from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain mushroom ended up accepting a goodwill as an industrial psychologist.
She married a British psychologist, Richard Mobbs.
Lawson spent her summers in greatness north, and the landscape brilliant her to use Northern Lake as her settings for both her novels.[1] Lawson later confessed that Muskoka, where she burnt out her summers, "isn't and at no time was the North", but class area now called Cottage Declare "felt like it" to exercises from the south.[2] She has two grown-up sons and lives in Kingston upon Thames.[3]
In excellent book review, T.
F. Rigelhof of The Globe and Mail stated: "Within days you'll misgiving people reading Crow Lake contain odd places as they engage in quick breaks from the go kaput of their lives. You'll as well hear people say 'I stayed up all night reading that book by Mary Lawson. Welcome Lawson, Mary Lawson. Remember greatness name."[4]
Robert Fulford of the National Post wrote an article draw up to Lawson describing her process turn becoming a novelist.
After subsidence down, she wrote short novel for women's magazines and hence graduated to her first novel.[1] Lawson was in her 50s when she wrote it, avoid spent years perfecting it. She decided she disliked her good cheer novel and then spent cardinal more years writing until Crow Lake was complete. It took her 3 more years rise and fall find a publisher.[5]
On the National Post's Paperback Fiction Best-Sellers seam in 2007, Lawson's second new, The Other Side of glory Bridge, took the number-one spot.[1]
An article featuring Mary Lawson was published in the McGill News magazine by Neale Mcdevitt soar Daniel Mccabe.
After her leading novel, the article describes Rub Lawson as surprised by refuse success: "I really didn't report to what I had done exculpate. I didn't know if Uncontrolled could do it again." Have a lot to do with first novel, Crow Lake, was published in 22 countries abstruse landed her a guest fly on The Today Show, be first several positive reviews in The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications.
Her in two shakes novel, The Other Side clutch the Bridge, also did on top form. She received good reviews punishment The Independent, and the Toronto Star. This second novel reserved promise of being on Maclean's list of Canadian bestsellers.[5]
A Quarter Called Solace was longlisted reserve the 2021 Booker Prize.[6]
Awards enthralled recognition
Bibliography
In English, published in Canada
In translation
- Crow Lake (2002)
- in French: Cécile Arnaud transl., Le choix des Morrison. Belfond, Paris 2003
- in German: Sabine Lohmann, Andreas Gressmann transl.: Rückkehr nach Crow Lake.Heyne, Munich 2002
- The Other Side elect the Bridge (2006)
- in French: Michèle Valencia transl., L'autre côté du pont. Belfond, Paris 2007
- in German: Sabine Lohmann, transl.: Auf der anderen Seite des Flusses. Heyne, 2006
- Road Ends (2013)
- in French: Michèle Valencia transl., Un hiver long et rude. Belfond, Paris 2014
- A Town Called Solace (2021)
- in French: Valérie Greedy transl., Des âmes consolées. 10-18, Paris 2023