Anakana Schofield

Anakana Schofield is the author of the acclaimed, Giller Prize-shortlisted novel Martin John , which was also a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize in the UK, a New York Times Editors' Choice and named a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, National Post , Sunday Business Post , Toronto Star and Irish Times , among others. Her debut novel Malarky won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United...See more

Anakana Schofield is the author of the acclaimed, Giller Prize-shortlisted novel Martin John , which was also a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize in the UK, a New York Times Editors' Choice and named a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, National Post , Sunday Business Post , Toronto Star and Irish Times , among others. Her debut novel Malarky won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her writing and reviews have appeared in the Guardian , Irish Times , Globe and Mail , National Post , London Review of Books blog, and The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers . She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. See less