Sheila Murray is a Canadian writer.
[Histories That are Buried Beneath the Mainstream' Sheila Murray on Telling the Stories of Two Mixed Race Men in Her New Novel"]
''Open Book'', July 29, 2022. Her debut novel ''Finding Edward'' was published in 2022, and was a shortlisted finalist for the
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English.[2022 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2022 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 12, 2022,Adina Bresge"Sheila Heti, Anne Carson among finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards" ''Toronto Star'', October 12, ...]
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''Finding Edward'' centres on Cyril Rowntree, a young mixed-race man from
Jamaica
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who moves to
Toronto
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as an international student, and connects with Edward Davina, an isolated elderly man whose life followed a similar path. It was published in July 2022 by
.
[Michael Schaub]
"Shelia (sic) Murray’s ‘Finding Edward’ Comes Out July 19"
''Kirkus Reviews
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'', July 10, 2022.
Murray was born in
St Albans
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,
England
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, and emigrated to Canada with her family as a teenager.
[ She is based in ]Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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, Ontario
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, where she coordinates a climate change
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activist project.[ She has also published short fiction in various Canadian literary magazines.][
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References
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Black Canadian women
Black Canadian writers
British emigrants to Canada
Canadian women novelists
Canadian women short story writers
Living people
People from St Albans
Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
Year of birth missing (living people)
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