- Elyse Gasco
Elyse Gasco, MA (born 1967) is a Canadian fiction writer.
Born in Montreal,
Quebec , Gasco studied Creative Writing first atConcordia University where she received aBachelor of Arts degree, then atNew York University to earn a Master of Arts degree.The title story of her 1999 debut collection, "Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?" (1999), won the 1996
Journey Prize . The book won the QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the QSPELL/FEWQ First Book Award, and was shortlisted for a 1999 Governor General's Award, theRogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize , theDanuta Gleed Literary Award , and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award. It was also a New York Times Book Review Notable Book.The collection has since been translated into French by
Ivan Steenhout as "Bye-bye, bébé" (2001). Gasco has also adapted the stories for the stage as "Bye Bye Baby".Gasco's work has appeared in American and Canadian literary magazines, including "The Little Magazine", "Western Humanities Review", "Canadian Fiction Magazine", "PRISM international", "Grain", and "The Malahat Review".
Gasco is married with two daughters and lives in
Westmount .Bibliography
*"Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?". Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. ISBN 0-7710-3297-8 (translated as "Bye-bye, bébé". Montreal: L'Instant même. ISBN 2-89502-143-0)
External links
* [http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/lit/pdf/innovator.pdf Vancouver Publis Library: New Canadian Novelists] , PDF format, accessed
1 July 2006
* [http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/296 QWF: Elyse Gasco profile] accessed1 July 2006
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