Paige Cooper is a Canadian writer, originally from Canmore, Alberta[1] and currently based in Montreal, Quebec.[2] Her debut short story collection Zolitude was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize,[3] a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction[4] and a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.[5] A French translation of Zolitude was published by Éditions du Boréal in 2019.[6]

The collection derives its title from Zolitūde, an apartment block in Riga, Latvia where a major shopping centre underwent a roof collapse in 2013.[7] The book's stories have been described as speculative fiction.[8]

Her short stories have also appeared in The Fiddlehead, West Branch, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast Online, Canadian Notes & Queries, The New Quarterly and the Journey Prize anthology.[8]

Bibliography

  • Zolitude (2018)

References

  1. ↑ Volmers, Eric (October 5, 2018). "Canmore native Paige Cooper writes dystopian love stories for an uncertain time and place". Calgary Herald.
  2. ↑ "Beautiful and strange". Winnipeg Free Press, March 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Tanya Tagaq among 12 authors longlisted for 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General's fiction prize". Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Carrianne Leung wins $10,000 short fiction prize for 'That Time I Loved You'". CTV News, June 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Tardif, Dominic (2019-11-16). "«Zolitude»: Paige Cooper à la frontière entre paranoïa et lucidité". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  7. ↑ "Zolitude, by Paige Cooper". Quill & Quire, January 2018.
  8. 1 2 "'Zolitude' Is the Speculative Debut of the Year So Far". Chicago Review of Books, May 3, 2018.


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