Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott (born in 1958) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was short listed for the Giller Prize.

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Personal life

Endicott was born in Golden, British Columbia in 1958, grew up in Halifax and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Ontario. She worked as an actor before moving to London, England, where she began to write fiction. Returning to Canada in 1984, she went west to Saskatoon and worked in theatre as a director and dramaturge. She was for many years the dramaturge of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre. In 1992 she went farther west with husband Peter Ormshaw to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, on his first posting with the RCMP;[1] they have since lived in Cochrane and Edmonton, and have two children: Will (1993) and Rachel (1996). They presently (2011) live in Edmonton, Alberta.

Writing career

Endicott was an actor and director for many years before beginning a second career as a writer of fiction. When asked why she switched, she explained:

Being an actor isn't an easy life. The work is so ephemeral... I write novels instead of plays because I like the intimate link of the silent writer and the silent reader.[2]

Endicott’s first short story appeared in Grain in 1985. Her stories have been anthologized in Coming Attractions and short-listed for the 1993 Journey Prize. Her first novel, Open Arms (2001), was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was broadcast on CBC Radio's Between the Covers in 2003. Her long poem about the Mayerthorpe incident, "The Policeman's Wife, Some Letters", was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards in 2006. Her third novel, The Little Shadows was published by Doubleday in 2011, and shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Prize and honours

  • 1993 Shortlist, Journey Prize
  • 2003 Finalist, Amazon.ca/Books In Canada First Novel Award (for Open Arms)
  • 2008 Finalist, Giller Prize (for Good to a Fault)
  • 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean (for Good to a Fault)
  • 2010 Longlisted, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • 2011 Longlisted, Giller Prize (for The Little Shadows)
  • 2011 Finalist, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Canada, (for The Little Shadows)

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Ormshaw has also had two careers, first as a poet then as a Mountie - Wall Street Journal p. W3, 2 April 2010
  2. ^ Wall Street Journal p. W3, 2 April 2010



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