Lynn Coady

Lorna Hutchison (University of Winnipeg)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 24 Jan 1970
Activity 1990-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Coady's Works

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When Lynn Coady published her debut novel,

Strange Heaven

, in 1998, the literary community in Canada was both excited and enchanted by the destabilising energy of Coady's prose, her treatment of the abject and the taboo in the lives of her characters, and the juxtaposition of humour and absurdity that has since become her trademark. The success of Coady's East Coast realism has placed her fiction alongside the work of regionalist writers David Adams Richards and Alistair MacLeod. Shortlisted for the Canadian Governor General's Award,

Strange Heaven

was followed in 2000 by a collection of short stories,

Play the Monster Blind

, and in 2002 by the novel

Saints of Big Harbour

. Coady's characters, predominantly from the working class and the marginalized in Cape Breton, struggle with the…

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Citation: Hutchison, Lorna. "Lynn Coady". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 June 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5387, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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