A graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program, Annabel Lyon, has been short listed for the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Fiction Trust Award, and the $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Awards. She is the only writer shortlisted for all three awards.
Lyon currently teaches in the program’s Optional-Residency MFA Program, the online version of the UBC MFA degree.
Lyon follows in the footsteps of recent graduates including Steven Galloway, MFA 2001, who also teaches as a lecturer in the MFA program. His international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo is published in 22 countries and in its seventh printing in Canada. It was a finalist for the Richard and Judy Book Club this year (the UK’s version of Oprah).
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