Antanas Sileika

Antanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika) is a Canadian novelist and critic.

He was born in Weston, Ontario - the son of Lithuanian-born parents.

After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antanas published his first novel, "Dinner at the End of the World" (1994): a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming.

His second book, a collection of linked short stories, "Buying On Time" (1997) was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and was serialized on CBC Radio's "Between the Covers". The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies. Some of these stories were anthologized in "Dreaming Home", "Canadian Short Stories", and the "Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour".

Antanas appears regularly on Canadian television and radio and is also a free-lance broadcaster.

His third book, "Woman in Bronze" (2004), compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties.

He is the artistic director for the Humber School for Writers and is a past winner of a National Magazine Award. He is currently at work on a new novel set in the Soviet Union of the late 1940's.

Bibliography

*"Dinner at the End of the World". Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic, 1994.
*"Buying on Time". Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1997.
*"Woman in Bronze". Toronto: Random House Canada, 2004.

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=28358 Bio at Randomhouse publisher]
* [http://www.sentex.net/~pql/buying.html "Buying on Time review"]
* [http://www.mcdermidagency.com/sileika.htm Bio at Anne McDermid agency site]
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=471&L=S Bio at Canadian writers union site]